October has been a heck of a month! It started out with Molly getting laryngitis a few weeks before her big Macbeth debut and then Timothy came down with Pneumonia. This was followed by Jack missing a week of school due to the Creeping Crud and then somehow we passed it through skype to Robbie in Boston. In fact, all four of my kids were on Zithromax in the same month. I should take stock in the company that makes that drug! So the excuse I am using for why Halloween is a bit nontraditional this year is because the Plague his hit our house big time!
Every year, for as long as I can remember, we have gone to Stokoe Farms in the Fall. However, this year, since at least one family member has been on the futon, coughing and feverish, and home from school, we just didn't get a chance to go. In fact I am ashamed to say I took the lamo way out and bought 5 pumpkins, all about the same size, from Wegmans. Ugh. I brought them home to my sick chickens to carve while they hacked up lungs and green phlegm and gasped for air and the fever broke to beads of sweat!!! Okay so it isn't that bad anymore, but still, it's really gross here!
In fact, in keeping with this year's nontraditional Halloween, Timmy even went to the local Monster Bash in street clothes (costume -schmostume). For those of you that know just how many dozens of plastic totes of costumes we have in our attic, that is really unbelievable and basically sad!
Today, drugged up and raring to go, my kids were very excited about getting to the the task of cleaning out the guts and carving the faces on their store bought pumpkins. Like I do every year, I pulled out the zip lock bag of orange plastic handled mini pumpkin carving tools for little hands to safely carve their jack-o-lanterns. However, in keeping with our lamo-Halloween season which included not going to the pumpkin patch and not picking out their own pumpkins, the interesting twist to this years new way of doing Halloween the "non-traditional" way was the introduction of power tools!
Gotta love power tools!
Heavily medicated and using power tools... nice!
I am happy to report, none of my kids will be dressing up as dismembered zombies this year. They all still have their limbs and all ten digits!
Using the traditional pumpkin tool to change the bit on the power tool. Love it!
Timothy even carved his tiny little pumpkin he got from the bus driver.
You do get perfect little circles when you use a drill, that's for sure.
Mucus? Snot? Phlegm? nah, just pumpkin guts!
You can't even tell he has a raging fever!
Someone tell that boy to cut away from himself!
Only 5 pumpkins this year =( Boston has snow, they are onto Christmas!
Using the child safe tools! I haven't slept in weeks and I like my fingers.
Yum!
Jack's! He's been planning this on paper for weeks.
Molly's : p
Mommy's
The one Halloween decoration this year! Oh well, there is always next year.
Did you at least put out the Giant Wooden Witch??????
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