J wanted to be a 'pumpkin head man'. I thought okay that might be doable until I heard what that meant to him! He wanted to carve a pumpkin and put it on his head! Do What!? No son...you can't do that! LOL..."Why not" he says? Um...because it's slimy in there, "I don't care". Because it would be too heavy for your little 45 lb self to carry, "Uh, Uh, I'm strong, I can do it!". Because you wouldn't be able to see out of it properly since it would roll around on your head every time you move and you'd just run into people and things more than you already do, "I'll just hold onto it when I walk". Good Grief! I couldn't even come up with a good enough reason for him. I just had to eventually use the old parental standby: "Because I said so". Groans came forth with a roll of his eyes......sometimes we just have to say no because there was no way I was letting him walk around with a pumpkin on his head! LOL I just could imagine the damage that boy could do or could happen to him!
B wasn't so sure of her costume this year...I offered a punk rocker and she looked at me like I'd lost my mind. There was no way she was doing crazy things to her hair! That girl cracks me up. She decided to use her dance costume and be a dancer. Works for me and she felt 'prettied' up. She has never really been into anything gross or weird which is fine for me since I don't really get into that anyways. I love that they don't feel the need also to buy these crazy plastic costumes. Growing up I remember we didn't buy costumes. We were clowns, punk rockers, hobos, witches, ghosts, and wore military fatigues...didn't bother any of us except the year my brother decided to be a ghost...poor kid never did that again! Dad had always warned us to not cut across yards. Doug realized that he should have listened after he clotheslined himself across the throat with a power pole anchor cable! Ouch!
We did finish our pumpkins. I think they came out great. Steve helped the kids with theirs. B did some cleaning of hers and then ran off...she lost interest pretty quick for some reason! I think she wanted to play with the chicks. J was all into the 'slimy guts' of his pumpkin, eeew! He just wanted to play with that when he was done cleaning it. Gross kid, LOL!
The finished pumpkins! What you can't see is J hiding behind them thinking he's getting into the picture! He was back there making faces!
Oh and J tried to convince us that he could use his pumpkin as a night light until Halloween. I don't think so buddy!
