Our Buddy Jack

For Family Night on Monday we carved a pumpkin. Eileen was very excited about the whole thing, Anna wasn't quite sure what to make of it. While Eileen was willing to dig her hands in and pull out the pumpkin goop, Anna wanted no part in it! As you can see in the picture, she would barely touch it when forced to. Eileen had lots of fun with it. We asked her what kind of face she wanted Jack to have and she said she wanted him to have a "scary face," so Dan carved a scary face for him. Eileen has been talking all week about how scary our pumpkin is and how he is going to scare everyone. In fact it was apparently so scary that Anna refused to sit next to it so I could get a picture with all of the kids next to our pumpkin. Aaron was a whole different story. He was rather curious about what everyone was doing with the pumpkin, but once he tried it once, he had no interest in touching the goop again. What he was interested in was trying to put everything into his mouth (so what's new!!) He tried to eat the pieces of the pumpkin that were cut out (the top, eyes, nose and mouth) and when we took that away, he picked up the spoon that we had used to clean out the insides and ate that. So now, our buddy Jack is sitting on our front porch waiting for Halloween and the girls are very excited about tomorrow and wearing their costumes and going trick-or-treating! We tried on costumes today and they all look so cute!! Eileen was so excited about tomorrow that we had a hard time convincing her to take her costume off for dinner so that she wouldn't get it dirty. Have a Happy and safe Halloween everyone!