Great Pumpkin

Just because it's the Halloween Capital of the World (!) doesn't mean we don't wait until the last minute to carve our pumpkins. Silas actually carved a good portion of his. "The flame face is the scariest!"
Team Orrin and Emmet carved the friendly monster in the back.
In typical fashion, Emmet was nearly inverted into the pumpkin while getting seeds and strings out. Meanwhile, I asked Silas to help get the pumpkin guts out; "Ok, Mom. but not with my hands!"
The 50 pound behemoth Silas picked out in the pumpkin patch remains uncarved. We don't know how many we might have to host for birthday and Thanksgiving celebrations. We might need a lot of pie.

Breaking my heart

Some ridiculous things Silas has said in the past few days:

• Being with Grandma, just being with Grandma. (When I asked him at bedtime what his favorite part of the day was.)
• It doesn't matter if we find it Daddy. Super Why said in the super story answer that you just enjoy the game. (When Orrin said they had to hurry so they could find the Halloween medallion in the scavenger hunt, referencing the Tortoise and the Hare episode of Super Why.)
• Look at this face Mom. And when you think of this face you will remember me this night splashing in the bathtub. (Tonight after his bath, on the way up to bed.)
  

Orange ya' glad it's Halloween?

We have entered the age of the knock knock joke. As Grandma and Grandpa will attest to after having an interrupting lion, pig, goat, chicken, horse, as well as a cow, come a' knockin. He also seems to think that any word can replace "orange" in the banana joke. For instance, bat will knock over and over again, then suddenly it's pumpkin. Pumpkin ya' glad I didn't say bat?

Emmet also is getting in on the act.
"Knock knock!"
"Who's there?"
"Juice"
"Juice who?"
"I ha juice!"

Silas is loving all things Halloween at the moment. He spent the morning cutting scary things out of the newspaper. And has been telling everyone he meets that he has a cheetah costume. Emmet's going to be a lion. Here's a preview. The make-up needs work, we were ina rush to get to the library Halloween story and craft time.


Apologies for my prolonged absence. We weer away on vacation in Michigan for a week, then came back to a new computer, with a new operating system, and nothing where I can find it. And then. we became hooked on watching Lost on Netflix Instant so every evening was two hours of that. And then Orrin was traveling to the Philippines, Singapore, and Taiwan for work for two weeks so the boys and I escaped to Grandmas in Michigan and Indiana. But now we are back home and getting caught up and I will try to be more consistently here. (Hmm.. where have we heard that promise before?)