Pumpkin! You're Always Yelling Pumpkin!

Peter is not even old enough to grasp the Halloween concept (as far as we know), but somehow Halloween was a hundred times more fun because of him! He had loved wearing his cool dinosaur costume at the "Dinner in the Driveway" (thanks Andrew, Ben, and SJ for letting him borrow the costume), and he LOVED handing candy out at the door. Each time the doorbell rang, we'd scoop him up and let him wave to the kids at the door. That's the big thing these days... waving. He waves to the phone when we tell him to say hi. It is so so cute. I guess I should mention more about what he's up to these days... but another time. Right now, we're here to talk about pumpkins and Halloween.

Peter wasn't quite sure about carving a pumpkin until I had cut holes in the front and he could stick his hand all the way through. The mushy gush wasn't all that appealing to him... and I totally agree. There's no secret as to why I can't handle many pumpkin-flavored things...

I love this picture below! Look at those eyelashes!

I loved watching him try to figure out what on earth was going on. 

 He discovered his hand! And so began the game of shoving everything he could find into the pumpkins mouth and eyes.

One of our little pumpkin friends greeting the trick-or-treaters.

Peter waiting for the kids to come! We spent the evening watching Scott's childhood favorite, Raggedy Ann and Andy's The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile, which basically made me feel like I was watching Peter.  

Except Peter's never that sad. 

We love this little movie, and Peter sat and watched it with us too. I love the little voices and the very simple plot. Some of the dialogue made us laugh a little. "Pumpkin! You're always yelling Pumpkin!" Scott gets really excited about the skateboarding dog and his awesome jump-over-the-rug move.

After Peter went to bed and the trick-or-treating died down, Scott and I watched the old movie, "Clue." Scott had never seen it before, and it was a fun Halloween movie... we're not into the scary kind. 

Our spooky house... not really. We have the weird mound in our front lawn. People always say it looks like someone is buried below... so how could we pass up the opportunity to have a headstone? 

Hope you had a Happy Halloween too!