Thursday, October 29, 2009

Pumpkin Carving and Trunk or Treating

This year was our first time pumpkin carving....

Quincy seemed pretty happy about the idea of pumpkin carving....

Unfortunately as we actually progressed into the carving process Quincy was showing less enthusiasm.

I don't know what seemed to make him so nervous about this pumpkin carving activity... maybe it was Tyler jamming a knife into a pumpkin, oh who knows.....

We had to have a little sit down with him and explain that pumpkin carving was fun. We would get to carve a face on our pumpkin. Then after we made a face on it we could light a candle and put it inside. This seemed to cheer Quincy up a little bit....

That was until it came to the part where we had to gut the pumpkin out. Quincy was terrified of the stuff inside of it. Note the nervous smile in the picture above. Tyler made the mistake of just grabbing his hand and shoving it inside the pumpkin. He FREAKED out. He was screaming and clinging to me and must have thought that pumpkin was never going to give his hand back. After we calmed him down once more we explained that there were seeds inside. We needed to take out all the seeds so we toast them in the oven and eat them. This wasn't exactly enough to convince him so what did we do? Bribe him with smarties of course! Then he was really excited................

Look at how he excited he was after pulling out one seed.

After a lot of hard work on my part in sorting guts from seeds... this was the final result.

And here Quincy is with his Jack O Lantern.

Our ward had a Trunk or Treat and home made chili with cornbread dinner. We decided to go and Quincy was thrilled with the whole concept of trunk or treating. It only took him a few cars to figure out that magic phrase that resulted in his getting lots of treats.

By the end of the night our little pumpkin had a pumpkin full of candy!

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