I planted lots and lots of pumpkins this year, but because of the wretched rain I only got 1 pumpkin. It is tiny. Really tiny. I like to plant the small sugar variety because I like to cook them up and use them in pumpkin pie, bread, pancakes, cookies, muffins, you name it! We did plant big, jack-o-lantern perfect pumpkins as well, but not one of them made it.
Tomorrow night for family home evening we are going to carve Kacey's pumpkin. One year I did a cat pumpkin. I carved out the eye holes, then using tooth picks to secure them, I used the pieces left over to make ears. I then made the nose and mouth, and gently scraped out whiskers. Another time I made a witch pumpkin. I didn't cut out anything but the eyes. I painted the entire pumpkin green and turned it so that the stem became the nose. I glued on some spanish moss for hair and bought a little witch's hat for a dollar and secured that onto the moss. That is my favorite. Very cute.
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Darby won't let us carve her hers; she thinks it must hurt the pumpkin. so, we let her paint it. this year, it's all black. this is on the heels of her picking black play-doh in nursery. my child may or may not be disturbed. the witch idea sounds so cute; i may suggest it to Frankie (he's trying to figure out what to carve). does Kacey know what she wants carved?
She hasn't said, but chances are it will be scary, or pretty. Probably scary. I'm trying to come to grips with the idea that she will probably be goth or emo once the hormones kick in. She'll be in love with The Crow, and wear a long black coat and black patent leather doc marten's (which I saw at school today on a girl wearing black panty hose and short jean shorts).
Fun stuff.
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