Pulp oozes around our hands, slipping, sliding through fingers. Wearing the pumpkins’ guts proudly, like a new fashion statement, we reach inside for more. Seeds go in one bowl, innards in another.
Checking out what's next at the pumpkin patch, hand in hand...melt my heart.
At the pumpkin patch, we surveyed our options. It wasn’t long before I noticed the enormous orange ball in the green wagon. One down, three to go.
“This one’s perfect!” Our boy is waving us down. As my husband pulls up with the four wheeling wagon, he inspects the find. “Nope, looks like there’s a hole in the bottom kiddo. You’ve got to look all around it. We don’t want a rotten one, right?”
Two kids, bubbling with giggles run for another possibility. On their way, they get distracted by a black cow. Giggles give way to whispers before they call us over to show us what they think are baby cows sleeping under a piece of siding lying across the ground. When the baby critters awaken, emerging to chow on a small broken pumpkin, it’s easy to see that they’re cute baby piglets.
And we’re all smiling as the kids run off to climb the hay bale pyramid, drive the old tractors, and try to feed the ponies some hay.
“Come on kids, let’s pick our pumpkins!”
“This one?” She lifts a little pumpkin high in the air.
“That’s too small to carve.”
She picks out three more tiny pumpkins that nestle perfectly in her sweet little hands as we continue to tell her they’re too small to get seeds from.
I remembered the one she had brought home from school. “Actually, go ahead and get a small one. You can carve the one from your field trip and paint the little one you get today, okay?”
“Yes, yes, yes, yes!”
Adding a pumpkin with a smooth front, perfect for a cool carving, for me and one without any holes for our boy and we lugged the heavy wagon to the front to pay.
“This one’s perfect!” Our boy is waving us down. As my husband pulls up with the four wheeling wagon, he inspects the find. “Nope, looks like there’s a hole in the bottom kiddo. You’ve got to look all around it. We don’t want a rotten one, right?”
Two kids, bubbling with giggles run for another possibility. On their way, they get distracted by a black cow. Giggles give way to whispers before they call us over to show us what they think are baby cows sleeping under a piece of siding lying across the ground. When the baby critters awaken, emerging to chow on a small broken pumpkin, it’s easy to see that they’re cute baby piglets.
And we’re all smiling as the kids run off to climb the hay bale pyramid, drive the old tractors, and try to feed the ponies some hay.
“Come on kids, let’s pick our pumpkins!”
“This one?” She lifts a little pumpkin high in the air.
“That’s too small to carve.”
She picks out three more tiny pumpkins that nestle perfectly in her sweet little hands as we continue to tell her they’re too small to get seeds from.
I remembered the one she had brought home from school. “Actually, go ahead and get a small one. You can carve the one from your field trip and paint the little one you get today, okay?”
“Yes, yes, yes, yes!”
Adding a pumpkin with a smooth front, perfect for a cool carving, for me and one without any holes for our boy and we lugged the heavy wagon to the front to pay.
A few dozen more camera clicks and we climb into the truck to head home, thinking about all the seeds we’ll have to roast, after we wear our fashionable pumpkin gut gloves.
I'm linking up with JDaniel4's Mom's Halloween Traditions. We finished carving our pumpkins last night and I'll be sharing those pics on Wednesday. In the meantime, you can see some of past years' pumpkin carvings here and here!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
We missed pumpkin carving this year. We have a tradition where the extended family goes to my brother-in-laws house for a pumpkin carving party and contest. But a crazy storm hit over the weekend and knocked out power for most of us so no party this year.
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Painting one and carving another is a great tradition!
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I didn't cook any seeds this year.
ReplyDeleteI'm kinda regretting it now!
Aw, I love Halloween. Isn't it fun? Love going to the pumpkin patch with the kids and picking out our pumpkins:) I like the idea of painting one and carving the other. Must make a mental note of that :P
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