The McClelland Family

For two girls who don’t like vegetables…

October 30, 2011 at 11:52 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

…they sure love pumpkins!

::as I type this, I realize it’s entirely possible that pumpkins are a fruit, not a vegetable…they are used in pie, after all.  I’m just too lazy to type it into the google search bar that’s ALL the way up in the corner of my screen…::

We’ve spread out our pumpkin activities to maximize the fun.  Last weekend we cleaned the pumpkins with a hose (fun #1!) and then decorated the smaller ones with stickers (fun #2!).  This weekend we scooped out pumpkin seeds (fun #3!) and carved pumpkins (fun#4!).  Who knew you could get so much entertainment out of a few gourds?

Tonight, on Halloween Eve (I’ve been assured by my 3rd grade students that this is an official holiday and therefore no homework should have been assigned over the weekend), Mary and Lila are soundly asleep with visions of costumes and candy dancing in their heads.  I’m excited to take them trick or treating tomorrow because they really enoyed it last year even though they didn’t totally understand what was going on.  This year they’ve been much more aware of all things Halloween (pumpkins, witches, ghosts, costumes, candy) and are looking forward to trick or treating tomorrow. I figured I’d better throw this pumpkin post with it’s 10,000 pictures up tonight so I’d be caught up on October (never mind that I still have posts from June, July, and August waiting to be finished).  This way I might actually get a Halloween post done ON Halloween this year!  No promises though.

(I don’t know why I used 18,000 parenthesis in this post.  Maybe I should just try making separate sentences next time.)

 

 

Mary and Lila liked those pumpkin cut-outs so much that I couldn’t bring myself to get rid of them…so I got creative!