to get into the halloween spirit we decided to make some pumpkin shaped cookies. we made the dough, rolled them out, cut them out and decorated them. bean mostly enjoyed the decorating part. every time i turned my head she had either the frosting knife or a handful of sprinkles in her mouth!!! (at least this made more sense than the time that i stuck the cookies in the oven and turned to find her eating the raw dough off the table. ha ha ha!) bean LOVES to make things in the kitchen and is very upset if i try to do anything in there by myself. which can be a little aggravating at times but mostly it is fun.
then, after cookies we carved pumpkins!! bean helped me design a face- she insisted on triangle eyes. then she helped me carve out those eyes as seen in the picture. you maybe wondering, why is she crying in the next picture? well, see that bowl of pumpkin guts sitting next to us? she slipped off my lap and half landed in the guts! OH THE HORROR!!!! she did NOT want to touch guts! she cried and cried because she got guts on her! ha ha ha! i couldn't help but laugh.here is the final product. i gave him triangle eyes with eyeballs! and bean said he had to have teeth so i gave him some funny buck teeth. he isn't going to win any awards but i think he turned out all right. bean loves him and his candle (as long as she doesn't have to touch guts! he he he) and that is all that matters in the end.
now, my job is to convince bean to wear her pumpkin costume to playgroup. she thinks that it is only for trick or treating and if we aren't trick or treating at playgroup then we can't wear a costume. "we don't play in them!" she informed me yesterday. sigh. why does she always have to sound so logical when she disagrees with me?? she is only 2 for goodness sakes!
5 comments:
Use the bandwagon approach. Tell her Adam, Matthew, Will and everyone else will have their costumes on, too! Maybe that will help. Adam is quite the opposite! He wants to wear his costume everyday! lol
Also, those look like such good cookies! You're such a good mommy! Our fun for the day consisted of us coloring a paper towel tube and pretending it was a telescope. haha.
I think we might make some apple muffins, today, though too... I guess I'm not a bad mommy after all. haha.
I think your pumpkin turned out great!
You guys do so much fun stuff together! Nadia doesn't really get the idea of baking yet...she just wants to eat all the raw ingredients, ha! The pumpkin looks great! We'll be carving our this evening. LOL that Bean won't play in her costume...Nadia wants to wear hers all the time!
Great jack-o-lantern and story. She is so cute.
The first time Mac touched pumpkin guts, he puked into the pumpkin. Lee puked, too, but missed the pumpkin.
I think that is hysterical! Pumpkin guts!! hahahahah
Poor old Bean though...not nice to sit in them...all wet and slimy.
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