we took a look at a few pumpkins and quickly settled on a nice big one!!

Vienna insisted on helping Sam carry it to the counter (it was a LONG walk for a little one! and Sam’s back only just held out! ha ha ha)

Our pumpkin cost $6.50, doesn’t that seem a bit crazy to you!?!?!?  I remember them being like 50cents growing up! has inflation gone up that much!?!?  Anyway… we gladly paid it, cause it’s family time .  We put our pumpkin in the van and walked about the farm a little bit.

We got to show Daddin’ the goats (Sam’s not been out to the farm there with Vienna yet). 

Vienna was a bit upset that we didn’t have anything to “feed the goat with daddin”  And silly me didn’t make sure that we had quarters for the feed machines… so we’ll have to do that another time for Sam to be able to be there.

We got to see the cow this time without it trying to eat our clothes!!  Vienna just LOVES all the animals!

Poor Ziva, all she got to do was sit in the stroller in the cold    She didn’t really seem to mind, but won’t it be fun next year when she can participate too!!!

My dad held Ziva while my mom was our photographer for carving the pumpkin!! 

Everyone scooping out the brains!

Daddin’ carves the mouth!  

The perfect family pumpkin!!  Vienna actually chose the face   I drew four faces (Sam nixed one) and Vienna picked out of three of them.  I was surprised she chose this one  
It was quite an enjoyable family project! (Thanks mom for taking the photo’s!!)

the lighting of the pumpkin fascinated Vienna

We are however, still struggling with concepts such as animate and inanimate, alive, not alive, real, not real

Vienna played “dishes” with her pumpkin (no, those aren’t offerings to a pumpkin god! ha ha ha)
“Lets play dishes pumpkin!”

and before bed, Vienna kissed the pumpkin good night! (it was sooo funny and soooo cute!)

Since Vienna’s having trouble distinguishing real and not real right now, and seems to be afraid of absolutely EVERYTHING, i seriously doubt we’ll be handing out candy this year with Mimi.  Too many kids these days have gross/scary costumes.  I’m not opposed to Halloween, but I don’t really like it when kids dress up as evil or scary stuff… I just wish we could remove that part from the holiday and just make it more of a harvest festival and a dress up day! but we don’t live in a perfect world, so we do what we can to make things better. 

Vienna  will get to dress up that day. She’s going to wear her princess dress (Ice skating costume I found at Good Will months ago) and Ziva has her spider hat and kitty cat onsey   We doooo love Dress Up in this house!!!