The Final Product

Before you see our beautiful pumpkins, I had to share some of my favorite things from today.

First of all, Peder was very scared of a "shadow monster" in his bedroom.  I gave him my teddy bear, Butterscotch, that I had while growing up.  I explained that Butter had a lot of experience from protecting me when I was little and could him feel safe.  He snuggled in and went right to sleep.  It made me so happy.

Secondly, Mari all the sudden started screaming in her bedroom.  I walked in and she wrapped her arms and legs around me and snuggled her head into my shoulder.  I asked her what was wrong, what she needed and she looked at me and said, "I NEED DADDY!" and then went back to crying.  I thought it was so sweet, but also felt bad for her because Jake was at football tonight.

Here are our final products, the ghost was Emmy's, the monster was Peder's and the bat was Mari's.  I hope to get more Halloween pics up in the next few days.

Carving Pumpkins

I'll post the finished products later, I'm suddenly having issues with blogger and our picture program.

The kids with their pumpkins.

Emmy helping me get the top off her pumpkin.

Peder trying to carve out the top of his pumpkin.

Emmy was REALLY unsure about cleaning out the inside of her pumpkin.

Peder thought it was funny.

Mari was all business.

Emmy finally got into it when we showed her how fun it was to get messy with the guts.

Peder starting to carve his pumpkin.

Getting a little help from Daddy.

I poked all the pattern holes in all 3 pumpkins.

Getting some love from my Sweet P.

The reality of pumpkin carving in our household:  as soon as the pumpkins were emptied Jake and I were left to do the hard work.  I poked all the holes and carved the ghost pumpkin, Jake carved the other two.

Picking out Pumpkins

We picked out pumpkins on Tuesday afternoon.  We told Peder he could pick out any pumpking he could carry.  He did it and got a good sized pumpkin too!

Mari carrying her pumpkin....notice Jake's hand holding the pumpking up for her?

Emmy with her pumpkin.  Jake helped her too.

The following are some pictures from the place we got our pumpkins.  Definitely made me feel like it was fall....which I loved!