Pumpkin Carving... the sequel

This was Ariel's second time pumpkin carving with us. Of course last time, she was only a few months old and really had no clue what we were doing. This time around, she was slightly interested, but wasn't too keen on the whole procedure. She would watch, leave to play, then come back to see if we were still at it.

This year we carved 3 pumpkins, one for each of us. Ariel poses with the pumpkins before we kill... er, I mean transform them into cute jack o' lanterns.


Helping Mommy scoop pumpkin guts. Ariel touched them and was grossed out I think, since she took off pretty fast.


Looking inside the empty pumpkins. We kept taking her toys and sticking them inside the hollowed out pumpkins. She won't stick her hand inside to rescue them, haha.


Helping Daddy carve. This was the cutest moment by far. She went to her plastic fruit toys and found the toy knife and came over and stabbed the pumpkin. Just like Daddy, awe.


All finished! Aren't they cute? I like that forth pumpkin in the back. Hee.


Then out to the deck where they will wait to be lit on Halloween. Whee.


Yesterday I mentioned I had a story to tell. Well, I was at the grocery store in the line up and this elderly lady was in front of us and started talking to Ariel. Of course she didn't respond since this was a stranger and she gets all shy. This lady keeps prodding Ariel to talk to her. I just smiled, but then she started saying things like, you mother dresses you rather funny doesn't she. Ariel was wearing a purple hoodie. Whats wrong with that? In fact, Nana bought it for her since it matched her purple hoodie. Ariel was wearing it when we met Nana for coffee earlier. I told the lady this, and she was like 'well I would never do such a thing.' Well, you aren't her Great Grandmother, so no worries. She said several other somewhat rude things and I just smiled. Oh well. I told Nana later and we had a good laugh about it.

Last night we attended a late 'Thanksgiving' potluck at church. We were to bring a dessert, so I made up a fancy chocolate cake. Yummy.


Ariel was all dressed cute in her dress from Easter. Still fits, actually, it fits really well at the moment. This was the only picture she would let me take since she had ants in her pants. She got them out by running around with the other kids once were at church. Ah, a vision of things to come.


Dinner was really good, and Ariel ate every bite on her plate. Yummy! We had to leave during the speaker since we could hear Ariel crying in the nursery. She was over tired and needed to go to bed.


Tomorrow Ariel is having her first play date with a friend from church. Chloe, who is 9 years old. It was really cute, her mom called and asked if it was ok because she asked her daughter who she wanted to go play with after school and she said Ariel. Awe. So it will be fun to have her over for a bit and entertain Ariel, who will be pumped as she loves Chloe. Should be interesting, hee.