Pumpkin Patch

Over the weekend Sean and I took Killian to a pumpkin patch and farm. It was very crowded and unfortunately not very impressive. But we managed to find some awesome pumpkins and see a Zebu. We have a Veggie Tales cd and one of the songs is about Zebus. The lines for everything we terribly long and people were not the most gracious. So we decided to eat some lunch and focus on finding pumpkins. Killian wanted every pumpkin that was ugly. And I mean ugly! The more warty things it had on it the better. If it couldn't stay up straight, if it looked on the verge of rotting, thats what she wanted. We were able to talk her out of the nasty pumpkins and got some great carving ones. We had to get a Kiki pumpkin, a mommy pumpkin and a daddy pumpkin. As we were in line to pay a girl behind us had 2 tiny pumpkins so Sean had to run into the barn to get Killian some.

This is the type of pumpkin Killian really wanted.

 

Waiting for Dad to bring the van around with our pumpkins

Keeping her baby pumpkins safe from the wind.

We carved the pumpkins the next day and made some pumpkin seeds. Killian really did not enjoy pulling the guts out. Mom and Dad got to pull everything out of the pumpkin and she would use a spoon to try to get some of the seeds. Once they were cleaned out we let her design her face. While Sean was carving them we painted some of the small pumpkins.

Getting out the guts!

At least she is smiling!

Using a measuring cup to collect seeds.

Showing off her coloring skills in the baby ones.

I think by this point she was done with pictures.
(Sean's is the top left, Paula's top right and Kiki's is bottom right.)

She loves looking at all of our pumpkins on the front steps. We'll just have to see how she handles it when we throw them all away!

Play-Doh!

 I finally caved and bought Killian some Play-Doh this weekend. I am not sure where my dislike of play-doh came from, but Killian definitely doesn't share the same feelings. She loved it! We got to make all sorts of fun things and she told me all about what she was making. I think the hardest part was that I kept trying to keep all the colors separate and not mix them up. Killian, however, sang a song for 10 minutes about mixing up her colors. So I gave up control of the non-mixing of play-doh colors and let her mix away.

Killian's caterpillar and Sean's snake he made

 My red and black lady bug with Killian's pink and orange lady bug.

Killian working very hard on mixing purple and yellow!
 

 A beautiful caterpillar by Killian.

So proud of her art work!
 

 Some pumpkins for Halloween.

After we cleaned up from playing we decided to make a homemade pizza as a family. Killian loves to cook and help us in the kitchen. I wish our kitchen was much bigger so we all could make more meals together, but we make do with what we got. Killian was able to be our "topper girl". She got to put all the toppings on the pizza. She had so much fun putting the sausage crumbs, ham blocks and the round pepperonis on there. I don't think there was any space not covered by meat and cheese! Killian loves cheese!

 Getting ready to go into the oven.

The final product...Delicious!