Pumpkins Carving 2009

Before I head off to bed here I wanted to post a few pictures from this evening's activities.

Katie's cousins gave her all of their old costumes last Thanksgiving and yesterday Katie rediscovered the box in her room. It is now Day 2 of the Fashion Show. She repeatedly models ALL of the costumes: Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and purple fairy. (Go figure why despite the hand-me-down costumes I still bought Katie a new Tinkerbell one for this Halloween!) Anyway, below is a picture of Katie as Snow White with purple fairy wings. I took this picture in the office so that explains all of the clutter in the background. As a side note, Katie begged me to fly her. Unfortunately I cannot lift her over my head and zoom her through the house like Rick does, so I had to advise her that she had to wait for Daddy.


Besides the costume parade, tonight we also carved four of our five pumpkins. Katie has been drawing faces for some time now. I think her first recognizable face was when she was 2 1/2. (Artistic talent runs in my family and it looks like she inherited that gene.) Katie draw faces on two of the small pumpkins and I cut them out for her. I drew out and carved the faces on the two big pumpkins as standard Halloween Jack O' Lanterns. I still have the extra large pumpkin to carve, which I plan to do tomorrow night. That will be the star pumpkin since I will go all out on the design.

Back to tonight, below are two pictures from Pumpkin Carving 2009. The first is Katie on the kitchen floor scooping out the insides of a pumpkin. You will note that is wearing the classic pumpkin carving outfit, a purple fairy costume complete with wings.

The picture below is of our pumpkins lined up on the fireplace mantel. We had purchased the pumpkins on Saturday at the Pumpkin Patch. The pumpkin that Rick picked out is on the extreme left. (Katie was kind enough to design her Daddy's pumpkin.) Katie's pick is on the extreme right. Rick and I picked out the two larger pumpkins together. Katie's pumpkin to the extreme right has a design flaw. The eyes, nose and mouth are too small, so whenever I put the lid on the pumpkin the candle extinguishes from the lack of oxygen. I considered making the mouth bigger, but then it would not be the face Katie drew. My solution is to keep the lid half off so her artwork remains true.

I wish Rick could have joined in on the pumpkin carving. However, he will not be home until Saturday, which is Halloween. I will post a picture of the main attraction pumpkin when I get it finished. Ciao!