Our garden gave us 6 gorgeous pumpkins this year. Brian returned home from work yesterday, and we've been waiting for him to carve pumpkins with us. While trying to decide what to do with a particularly short and fat pumpkin, I told him how some day I wanted to try drilling holes into the pumpkin as I had seen on Martha Stewart's show. He jumped right up, got out his drill, tracked down a spade bit, and set me up to drill to my heart's content. What I didn't expect was Kylie's interest in running a drill. That girl went to town on that thing! It wasn't long before she was handling the drill on her own like a pro. If anyone cares to know, some of the holes go all the way through the wall, while other holes go 3/4 through so the light glows through the remaining pumpkin wall. Make sense? No? Well, let me buy some candles and I'll try to get a picture.
I have noticed, in the past week, that Kylie's reading and writing skills have increased tremendously. It's like a switch flipped on. It's been so exciting to watch her progress and learn. Tonight she sat down with her dad and read him a Halloween book with minimal help.
We got our first snowstorm of the year. I'm quite sure that this Halloween will not be as nice as last Halloween. In fact, last Halloween was a complete fluke. This is more like the standard Northern Utah Halloween--wearing your costume over your snowsuit. The only person in our family upset by the snow was Sallie the cat. She has cabin fever and has protested quite loudly. The rest of us are enjoying the cozy day at home with hot chocolate and pumpkin cookies. My only lament is that I did not get out to take pictures of the fall colors before the snow fell.
Our garden gave us 6 gorgeous pumpkins this year. Brian returned home from work yesterday, and we've been waiting for him to carve pumpkins with us. While trying to decide what to do with a particularly short and fat pumpkin, I told him how some day I wanted to try drilling holes into the pumpkin as I had seen on Martha Stewart's show. He jumped right up, got out his drill, tracked down a spade bit, and set me up to drill to my heart's content. What I didn't expect was Kylie's interest in running a drill. That girl went to town on that thing! It wasn't long before she was handling the drill on her own like a pro. If anyone cares to know, some of the holes go all the way through the wall, while other holes go 3/4 through so the light glows through the remaining pumpkin wall. Make sense? No? Well, let me buy some candles and I'll try to get a picture.
I have noticed, in the past week, that Kylie's reading and writing skills have increased tremendously. It's like a switch flipped on. It's been so exciting to watch her progress and learn. Tonight she sat down with her dad and read him a Halloween book with minimal help.
We got our first snowstorm of the year. I'm quite sure that this Halloween will not be as nice as last Halloween. In fact, last Halloween was a complete fluke. This is more like the standard Northern Utah Halloween--wearing your costume over your snowsuit. The only person in our family upset by the snow was Sallie the cat. She has cabin fever and has protested quite loudly. The rest of us are enjoying the cozy day at home with hot chocolate and pumpkin cookies. My only lament is that I did not get out to take pictures of the fall colors before the snow fell.
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