14 October 2007

JaCk-O-lAtErNs!!

Since Halloween is approaching that means two things for us. One, we need to start buying some candy for the neighborhood kids and two, our baby is coming VERY soon! Since we aren't exactly sure when the baby is coming we decided to carve our pumpkins a little early so we'd have them for Halloween. Here in Lafayette we have a farmers' market downtown on Saturday mornings. There is a family that has a large wagon full of all types of pumpkins and gourds every week. We decided to buy one regular orange pumpkin and one white pumpkin. The white pumpkin is A LOT thicker than the orange one so it was harder to carve, but both of us think the white pumpkin seeds taste better. We've bought another white pumpkin that we'll carve closer to Halloween in case the other two mold or shrivel.
We figured we'd try out the baby's bathtub to make sure it can take a good mess!

Jesse was a little too excited to play with knives...
Trouble LOVED eating the pumpkin strings and licking up the juice from the tub.
Jesse's pirate pumpkin.
Jesse with his creation.
A close up of my pumpkin.
Posing with my white pumpkin spider.
This our porch all lit up at night.

1 comments:

Michelle said...

We need to do that sometime too! What a cute, fun activity to do together. :) I forgot how much fun things like that can be. I liked your Halloween costumes too, lol.