The Sunday before Halloween, we enjoyed a gorgeous fall afternoon on our deck transforming two plain old pumpkins into Jack-o-Lanterns. Molly plotted her design ideas and asked each of us to vote for our favorites. The bat/stars/moon design won. For the second J-O-L Pete carved a happy merry-not-scary face. Quincy the dog perched quietly under the table. By far the most exciting part of this afternoon was the removal of the pumpkin innards. Rebecca--who loves all things gross--was entranced by the stringy globs. Molly tried to play it off as though she was also fascinated, but a mother knows when her child is actually not so into it. Before the bat was carved on Pumpkin #1, Molly had retreated to her room. Rebecca, though, was in it to win it and relished every slimy handful. Amelia slept through the whole thing, but I'm sure she'll be into it next year. We placed them on the two entrances to our front porch on the steps and they glowed quite nicely on Halloween night.
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