Today I finally convinced Jason to carve the pumpkins. He would not let this occur any earlier because he was set on them lasting as long as they could. To be honest - I just wanted the seeds so I could roast them - YUM!!
I was so excited this year to let Zachary get all the gunk out - less for me to do!
Unfortunately for me, he did not like to put his hands in there! I should have known better. I have cleaned his hands repeatedly since he was born. I sit at his highchair with him and wipe him off as soon as he gets dirty. He loves to wash his hands and put on lotion. Any time he gets dirty, he comes running to me with his hands out to be cleaned.
Well, as he stuck his hands into the gunk filled pumpkin, he pulled it out, made a face, said 'eewwww', looked at me and gave me his hand.
So as you can tell by his pictures, he was more interested in looking into the pumpkin and poking at it with the poker, then helping to clean them out.
I was so excited when I saw the ad on nickelodeon for pumpkin patterns. I went right on and printed out one of swipper. For those of you who don't know who swipper is - he is the 'sneaky' fox on Dora the Explorer, Zachary's favorite show. As soon as we lit them up for him - he looked right at mine and knew what it was - I was happy!
Hopefully next year we will get him a little more involved with the creative process!
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