Last year, after the patch, Zoe wanted nothing to do with the pumpkin carving. She was more into the big spoon I was using to scoop it out. Until she got a little guts on her toe. Then the entire kitchen area was dead to her.
This year she had a totally different mindset: pumpkin seeds are her friends. She requested that she have her painting shirt on. In Sunday School that morning her teacher (aka Grandma) was teaching how we have junk, like pumpkin guts in us when we don't share or hit your friends. God doesn't want us to have junk, so we have to take it out with His help. Then you carve a cross in a pumpkin and let the light shine through. Or something like that. She's very clever.
Zoe was well prepared for the "junk" as she called it. Which is reassuring that she's listening in Sunday School and not running around with a ladybug doll and screaming like she was two weeks ago.
We put on her painting shirt and got to work. We cleaned the dirt off the pumpkins and posed a bit.
Then we decided that we really didn't want to work on the BIG pumpkins yet, just the "teensy" ones. Since she was already dressed for painting, she thought that's what we should do. So we did.
Then she saw me hacking into the BIG pumpkins and wanted in on the action. It's like buried treasure in there with all them seeds.
Then even seeds couldn't keep her attention. She ran, got a flashlight and wanted to see the pumpkin all lit up.
It wasn't too long before she saw another opportunity...
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That picture of her painting is so sweet. You can tell she's really giving it a lot of thought and wants it to be perfect. Adorable!
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