Our Pumpkin Patch

Mitch and I have never carved pumpkins together before so this was the year to make it happen. Mitch's cousins Austin and Callie grew some pumpkins at their house and gave us two and we found an awesome pumpkin patch that sold any pumpkin for a buck so we went crazy and bought 10. We laid out a bunch of newspaper and went to town.

I am not a huge fan of the process of cleaning out pumpkins and get my hands all full of guts so I resorted to just decorating the pumpkins rather than carving them.


Each of our carving styles matches our personalities...can you guess who carved the Vikings pumpkin?


Mitch stuck with the classic Jack O'Lantern face here while I attempted to make a skull.


Another funny Halloween moment for me this year was a conversation I had with one of my second graders the week before Halloween.

"Ms. B how do you spell punkin?"

"P-u-m-p-k-i-n"

"Na-uh, there is no MMMM sound in punkin."

"Ya there is you say the word Pummmmpkin not punkin"

"No my Mom told me, its a punkin"

"Buddy I'm not lying to you there really is an MMMM sound in pumpkin"

"I think your confused. Let's ask Mrs. Melby she will help you understand she is pretty good at letter sounds. Mrs. Melby you aren't going to believe this Ms. Bowman thinks there is an MMMM in punkin. Can you explain that to her?"

I love love love teaching and having these funny conversations with kids who are just in the stages of learning how words and letters work. My little buddy was a firm believer that the word punkin could not possilby have an "M" in it and he was ready to teach me how to spell.