Halloween Fun with Grandkids

Nothing makes holidays as fun quite like little kids, all the more so when they're your grandkids.  So it was a lot of fun the other night when Schwartzbeere and family were here and we did pumpkins, cut jack-o-lanterns.  Being only two, Duckie didn't remember much from last Halloween, this was all new to him.  It took a few minutes but pretty soon he was really getting into it.

Duckie has an amazing arm on him, he can throw amazingly well for a two year old.  It seems to come naturally.  He's accurate and gets pretty good distance, such as he's tried at it thus far.  So his first inclination with these beautiful orange, round orbs was to throw them.  Had we let him it would have been throw them in the box, take them back out, onto the table.  Then throw them in the box again, over and over again until we stopped him.  Took us a few minutes to convince him that was not the idea with these.

Then I guess he was trying them to see how they taste.  As thick and hard as pumpkins are that didn't go too well for him.  But it was worth a try in any case.

Then, since there were plenty of pumpkins to work with, he spent some time organizing and arranging them.

Turtle had a pumpkins, too, but he lost interest pretty quick.  Wouldn't fit in his mouth so what is there to do with it, right?

Then Duckie discovered the inside of the pumpkin.  After an initial hesitation, he was perfectly okay with the "guts". Many kids his age are not, won't have anything to do with it.  But he was quickly at home playing inside, perfectly willing to help anyone that wanted help.

That actually turned out to be a good thing since these were small pumpkins and his little hand fit in the openings best of all.

Back and forth, helping and playing (maybe the later, mostly), Duckie was having a blast.

When he wasn't reaching inside someone's pumpkin he was playing in the dish we were collecting the "guts" in.  He was really going to town.

Grandma did a couple of pumpkins, too.  Everyone was feeling quite artistic.

We worked at it, the creative juices were really flowing.  Some really nice pumpkins got done.

We ended up with seven pumpkins carved from the evening's efforts.  I thought they turned out very well.

Schwartzbeere and family took theirs home with them but Brombeere's went out of the front porch.  Threw some little candles in there and they looked pretty nice!

Yep, nothing makes pumpkin carving fun like little kids!