Thursday, October 30, 2008

Our Lil' Punkin

Well, thankfully the British equivalent of Wal-Mart (Tesco) did indeed have pumpkins.

Although I have since learned that the pumpkin festival we went to actually DID have pumpkins for sale. They were just in a really hard-to-find location and there were no signs anywhere to tell you about them. If we had managed to find them though, and bought pumpkins, we could have gotten free entry to the farm, which would have saved us money. Sigh. But I digress...

On Saturday we initiated Madeline into the joy that is pumpkin carving. Daddy helped Madeline with her pumpkin while Mommy did the other one. Needless to say, Daddy and Madeline's pumpkin turned out best. Madeline even helped design the face for her pumpkin: Bill drew several sets of eyes, noses, and mouths, and let her pick the ones she liked best. She wasn't super sure about helping to pull out the seeds, etc. at first, but it didn't take her too long to get into it. We've put our pumpkins outside on the wall by our driveway, and we have lots of fun waving to them every time we go by. Thankfully no one's smashed them yet--I don't want to have to try to explain that to Madeline if it happens. She's rather fond of her pumpkin, as evidenced by the photo of her kissing it!





7 comments:

Amy said...

Very cute pics! Good job on both pumpkins. ;o) See you soon...

lizS said...

how cute! they look great! we just carved our last night. i'll have to post pics on my blog soon, along with halloween costumes and suchlike.

Emily said...

Liz, you have a very strange husband.

lizS said...

why is my husband strange? i mean, yes, of course he is, buy why this particular time?

Emily said...

Because he sent me a comment to this post that said simply "Don't post this comment". So I didn't.

lizS said...

yeah, he told me about it when i asked what he did this time, lol! he said he was just trying to change blogger identities from mine to his, so to do this, he usually leaves dumb comments randomly on somebody's blog, and this time it happened to be yours. he was so excited because he didn't have to leave a dumb comment since you have comment moderation on. he could just simply change identities while telling you to just not post the comment. yeah, weird about says it all.

Cathren12 (mom) said...

I just love pumpkin season... You have some great pictures & wonderful memories here...