That Spooky Spirit

I think the concept of Halloween has kicked in for Alex. This afternoon, we traveled to Mangone's with Daddy to pick out a large pumpkin for carving. Their yard looked great, decorated with many of the yard decor they have for sale including a giant, inflatable haunted house. When we were last there a few days ago, I couldn't get Alex out of the house. Now, they had a cauldron stirring witch next to it and he wasn't so sure about it any longer.

He loved all of the other decorations though. The ghosts, the scarecrows, the gourds, the pumpkins. He was thrilled to have helped pick out our pumpkins. He even agreed to pose with some of their photo props, like a pumpkin truck and old fashioned farm pick up.

He wasn't too thrilled when it was time to leave, but poor Daddy was going to have quite a hike ahead of him carrying this large pumpkin. We had to bribe him out of there with a promise of stopping at CVS and a carving of the new pumpkin.

Carving the pumkins turned out to be a lot more difficult than we expected. There was pumpkin goo and pumpkin seeds and thick shells and tricky pictures to trace. Alex was thrilled though!

Sunday, October 10, 2010