I will admit that I look forward to roasting pumpkin seeds, but the process of cleaning them off... don't get me started!
Friday night, for Family Night, we gussied up a couple of pumpkins, potato head style. My mom gave the kids these kits last year and it was a brilliant choice. Harper clearly loved revisiting her witch kit.
Michael was pretty excited about things as well. As the pirate pieces fell into place he kept exclaiming, "Mah punkeen bootifoo!" (My pumpkin's beautiful!)
Then we made him go to bed and he cried. Sadly every night can't have a happy ending.
Harper, on the other hand, got to stay up a bit later and "help" me make potato soup. She worked on peeling potatoes. She'd never peeled potatoes before. I don't know if you have ever peeled potatoes with a five-year-old, but it is quite a task. I use little baby red potatoes for soup so peeling is probably more difficult.
Maybe I should have started her on carrots.
Harper peeled potatoes at the rate of about one every ten minutes. It. Was. Agonizing. But you can't learn without doing it, right? And all the other tasks involved chopping things with very sharp knives and I wasn't eager to visit the ER.
Harper sticks her tongue out when she concentrates.
Today Harper helped me make a loaf of bread to go with the soup and Michael helped me make brownies. Maybe the two of them will open a restaurant one day!
5 comments:
I'm impressed with your patience. Katy constantly wants to help me in the kitchen, but it feels like a torturous exercise in patience. I think the problem is that when I'm cooking I'm always in a hurry. Maybe if I did it as a fun activity it would be better.
Cute pumpkins!
So cute! I love the pictures. Aaron loves to try to help me peel, and agonizing is a good word for it...carrots aren't much better! He and Melina are technically my sous-chefs around here (Melina likes to make muffins especially). Maybe there is hope for the four of them later on down the road. Peanut free cafe that serves soup, bread, and muffins.
I like your potato pumpkins.
But why does everyone hate Halloween so? I cannot imagine losing my love for it, peanut butter cups or no. Pumpkins and costumes make kids MORE cute!
Halloween lover here too. People hate me because I have no great love for Christmas.
Kudos to allowing Harper to help cook with you. When N helps me it is all I can do to not grab stuff out of her hand and scream, "JUST LET ME DO IT, FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!" An exercise in motherly patience, to be sure.
Love the tongue sticking out.
So glad you had some Fall fun!! The pumpkins are super-cute :)
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