Our Pumpkin King

Today was quite the day! Dave stayed home with Lincoln while I went to church. He was actually kind of sad when I came home and told him they had talked about emergency preparedness. Everyone had to fill out a list and Dave has done a pretty good job getting us started on our emergency essentials. Later in the afternoon I made some chocolate covered pretzel sticks and decorated them for my little primary class. I'll give them to them at the trunk or treat tomorrow. After a delicous dinner the real fun began! Linc had his first pumpkin carving experience. We put the pumpkins on the table and Linc explored them a bit. He stood by them, sat on them, crawled through them and then I think he was ready to get down to business. He watched Dave cut the top off of the pumpkin. After the first slice I moved him away because he wanted to do what daddy was doing and was reaching for the knife. Linc then prepared his tool of choice. He tested it out, which for Linc means in the mouth and give it a bite! After he was done testing it out he watched how his daddy carefully scooped out all the pumpkin guts. He was taking note on how he should do it. I guess after thinking about it Linc felt that the little orange scooper was not going to be sufficient so he used what works well for him...his mouth!! He was NOT shy about it at all...he bit right into that thing and stuck his whole face on it! The taste of pumpkin is not an unfamiliar food for the little guy, he loves squash and just ealier that day had the left over baked pumpkin from the pumpkin curry I made recently. We let him explore and then when he was done he just threw it down. He definitely got the full experience. He took a nap and then when he woke up we were done and here are some pics of the final products. Daves is the scary big mouth pumpkin and mine is Jack Skellyton. Lincoln says "what"...LOL (ok not really, probably, but it sounds like it)

Linc eating the pumpkin