Halloween Eve

It’s October 30th and we’re gearing up for the Halloween festivities. Nana came over to help carve pumpkins and she brought cookies for Owen to decorate. Owen was excited to wear his eye protection. Decorating pumpkins is serious business. Just kidding, but it made for a cute photo-op!

 Owen started out a little slow – he didn’t quite see the fun in pumpkin guts. But once I gave him a special spoon shaped like a shovel and put a few scoops in the bowl, he got into it. He wanted to scoop pumpkin seeds out and then back into the pumpkins. He was very tidy about it too! Any seeds that spilled over onto the floor, he meticulously picked up and put back into the bowl.

While Dada was carving, Nana took Owen into the dining room to decorate cookies. He did such a good job! He was very careful with the knife spreading the icing and then he LOVED the shaking of the sprinkles. Dada actually had a great idea for the next time we use sprinkles – tape all the holes except for one so they come out much slower. Brilliant!

I was ready to let him go to town with eating the icing, the sprinkles, the cookies – whatever he wanted to do. He tasted everything, but he wasn’t too excited about taking more than one bite of each. You would think that maybe he doesn’t have much of a sweet tooth, not true. Stay tuned for tomorrow’s recap.

I did the obligatory seed roast and we found out that Owen loves him some pumpkin seeds. They are kind of a weird texture, but he can’t get enough. Must be because they are just “salt vessels” which is why I like them. Anything covered in butter and salt isn’t that bad.

Ok, I think we're ready…until tomorrow!