Halloween 2017
Greetings to all, and Happy Halloween!
Xavier's garden this year produced so many pumpkins, we were giving them away! Even so, we kept the bigger ones for ourselves.
Three of his pumpkins weighed in over 20 pounds, the largest being 24.5 pounds the smallest (of the 20+ pound club) 22.5 pounds.
We did not get all the carving out of the way last Monday after Rebecca got back from drill. Rebecca also needed to carve her pumpkin (she only hollowed it out last week). Once again, a family project the night before Rebecca flies out to Andrews AFB.
It's well we had a week to wait. Xavier's first choice (last week) for a carving was the newly added emoji Smiling Poop Emoji. I quietly hid that stencil away and he forgot about it.
We carved five pumpkins this year. An owl, a kitty face, a mermaid, a traditional triangle face, and a giant ant.
As Xavier has taken to watching the 1954 Black and White classic "THEM!", the pumpkin he carved last week was a "giant ant." (shortly after carving the ant, he decided to take the plastic awl and go Norman Bates with it)
It's hard to make out (I should have added another candle to it), but the shape is an ant. We took to calling the the Frankenstein Pumpkin because Xavier affixed a bunch of masking tape and what remained of his ant stencil to the pumpkin.
Xavier worked hard on the kitty. However, other amusements beckoned him. I would like to claim he carved the whiskers, one eye and nose, but he did not.
"Dad, will you finish it?" as he ran off to build another weapon to fight giant ants. The ears and one eye he can claim.