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.
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| This is the type of pumpkin Killian really wanted. |
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| Waiting for Dad to bring the van around with our pumpkins |
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| 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.
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| Getting out the guts! |
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| At least she is smiling! |
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| Using a measuring cup to collect seeds. |
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| Showing off her coloring skills in the baby ones. |
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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!
