Jack-O-Lantern

There is something about children that make the holiday season so much more exciting. I think it's their enthusiasm that is most contagious. As soon as they understand that something exciting is coming up, they can't talk about anything else. While their vocabulary and grammar may be somewhat lacking, it doesn't stop them for explaining and discussing the upcoming event with every word they know!

David has the opportunity to go on a school field trip to "Pumpkin Land." To this day I have no idea where that special place is but David brought home a perfect little pumpkin. He was pretty excited to show it to me and he explained very carefully that he picked the pumpkin out all by himself. From the moment he got home from school (just before 4 pm) until we actually started carving his jack-o-lantern around 7 pm, he was asking us about every 15 minutes if he could start cutting his pumpkin. (Michelle had already acquired the family pumpkin last week.)

Michelle, along with Donovan and Michael, began the work on the family pumpkin while David work solo on his special pumpkin. Michelle and the boys finished their jack-o-lantern first but David persevered all by himself and ended up with a remarkable jack-o-lantern of his own.