Out of Our Gourds!

As you can imagine, the past few weekends have largely centered around pumpkins.

In addition to visiting the animals at one of Ellie's favorite zoos as they welcomed the Halloween season with their very own treat-filled pumpkins (treat = lettuce, carrots, and other things zoo animals like to eat).. we've been having some fun with our very own.

A couple weekends back Ann and Ellie made some yummy pumpkin muffins. But to do that, you first have to clear out some pumpkins. Ellie was a bit reluctant at the beginning, but wound up having a great time getting all the goop out -- and an even better time eating the muffins once they were finished.


Just last Saturday, we did our first family jack-o-lantern carving. Ellie enjoyed seeing all the shapes you can put into a pumpkin. We asked if she wanted one of the pumpkins to have a happy and funny face or a scary face.. "I want a scary face!".. so that's what we got. Good to see she can get into the spirit of the season.

Again, she did a good job scooping out the insides of the pumpkins, but liked it even more once the jack-o-lanterns were done.



I found it pretty funny that, once the carving was done, Ellie treated the jack-o-lanterns like puzzles.. trying to fit the pieces back into the holes from which they came. She got a couple of them in there, too.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYBODY!
(stay tuned for trick-or-treating Ellie pictures)























































































BOO!