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26/Oct/2014 – pumpkin brains

We spent this chilly Sunday inside and carved pumpkins. After the kids got cleaned up for the day we decided to break out the carving kit daddy bought and have a little bit of fun. All four kids sat around the table as daddy carved out the bottom of the pumpkin, totally bracing themselves for what they were about to see. We were calling the seeds all kinds of things to get them riled up: brains, pumpkin guts, pumpkin juice. When they got a glimpse of the insides Belle had her hands over her ears and ran, Miley screamed and left, and so did Logan. Max sat there just fine. We caught it on video which is just hilarious.

Once that part was done I started hollowing it out, and poor Belle just looked like she was in utter distress the whole time, Miley just wanted to make sure I didn’t touch her with any of it but the boys looked on. Eventually though, I was abandoned while they decided to lay out the templates and vote on what to carve. In the end they voted on the cat.

While I took the boys to swimming, daddy traced out the template and carved out the delicate parts and then each kid took a turned carving. It was a lot of fun. For the little pumpkin Miley and Belle decided he should look like a minion.

21/Sept/2013 – Fall Craft

Tomorrow is the first day of Fall (I think….so my mother says, anyhow.) We decided on a little fun craft this evening which involved shaving cream, paint, a squeegee, and pre-cut shapes of leaves out of card stock. We made some really cute leaves to decorate the house with. Daddy had the honors of filling the tin pan with shaving cream and I swirled around the paint. We got the kids to each take a turn pressing the card stock into the paint and shaving cream and then I used a squeegee to take off the excess. Max slowly got into it with some convincing that his hands could be washed, Miley took her time and freaked out at every little mess at first, and Belle was just all around having nothing to do with it. Finally Miley got in there and did a few leaves of her own. Daddy decided to have a little more fun and put Max’s hands right into a tin of shaving cream that didn’t have any paint in it and had Logan in hysterical laughter. Miley and Belle were just upset and grossed out.