Ok so Sarah's 16mnths old, smart as can be and way too curious like her Mama. However there is one trait that she has inherited that is clearly not from me: she is a complete and utterly girly girl princess. I discovered this about my little girl this weekend. I thought we could have a good time and start a pumpkin carving tradition. Something that we always did when I was growing up. So, we go buy this huge pumpkin at sam's - she looooved picking it out. We get the stencil set at walmart, dust off Poppie's drimmel tool and head to the back porch to start our gutting adventure. Yeah that didn't last long..... My little "punkin" would have nothing and I do mean NOTHING to do with the gunk that is inside a pumpkin (see face in above pictures). From the moment I reached my hand in it to show her, she started shaking her head and making it very clear that she meant not to touch this stuff.
Oh the payback for never wanting to wear the pretty dresses my mother bought me....... I have a prissy girly girl...
Poppie decided it would be a good time to go out for an adventure walk in the yard and I was stuck with this pumpkin carving all by myself. Some tradition huh ;o) In the end (with some power tool help from poppie) we did finish it up and I think it looks pretty darn good for Sarah's first annual pumpkin carving:
But then again I am the biased mom... :o) She did help me put vaseline on all the cut areas and thought it was fun putting the top on (and off and on and off and on....) So maybe we'll keep trying the tradition for a little while after all.
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