Pumpkin time of year

Evie's pumpkin farm field trip was last week. She was excited to find her besties there when we arrived. These girls have been together since they were in the "2s" class, so they just love being together.

The majority of the morning was spent exploring the hay fort. They went through it 7 or 8 times. They were also thrilled that they all happened to have the same flashlight.

We also took a hayride.

This is the little boy she has been calling her boyfriend for months, until a few weeks ago, when he told her they are just friends for now.

They all just love their teacher. She is great. Kiersten had her as well, and still misses her, and loves to see her when she gets the chance.

She really loved this spider, but her friend was too scared to pose next to it. She felt like a pretty brave girl after that.

Almost 4 pumpkins tall.

She picked out one of the smallest pumpkins. She grabbed it immediately, and announced it was her baby, Jewel. She checks on her every day on the porch to make sure she's doing well out there, and even buckled it into a carseat on the ride home from the pumpkin farm.

Ben got some large pumpkins to carve with the girls.

Kara was determined to do hers all by herself. She didn't want any help, until it came time to scrape out the yucky stuff. But we made her do it herself since she'd been going on and on about doing it by herself.

Evie wanted a sad pumpkin, so this is how hers turned out. We had some KC chiefs templates, so we did a chiefs picture on the back of each. At first Kara said she didn't want one, but after she saw the others, she asked me to do one of the football pictures on the back of her pumpkin too.

The Chiefs side of the pumpkins.

Ben helped Kiersten with the face side of hers. After it was done, they thought it looked like Kara.

The other side of Kara's pumpkin. It is a cat. We kept telling her not to make too large of a hole, but she didn't want to listen, and did her own thing. I think she learned a lot, and will do even better next year.

Kiersten had a homework project to decorate a turkey wearing a disguise. The whole family is supposed to work on it together. She wanted her turkey to dress up like a rose, so this is what we ended up with. She is very excited to turn it in at school today.

Evie wanted me to help her paint Jewel. She has been saying all week that she wanted her to have blue eyes, but that was all I had to go on. I let her paint the pink hair on first, and then I did the face. She sat looking over my shoulder, and telling me how she wanted it. She did keep bumping me, so I had to redo it a few times.

This is how Jewel turned out, with her pink hair, blue "girl" eyes, rosy cheeks, and "scary pointy" teeth. I also glued a bow on top that was a reject from Evie's trunk or treat ensemble. She was pretty pleased, and asked if she can tell everyone that she painted the face. I told her to say that she designed the face instead.

Kara tested for her yellow belt in Tae-Kwon-Do. She was definitely trying not to act nervous when we arrived. She kept reminding me that her instructor said she was more than ready to test.

She passed, and was a little embarrassed when the instructor stopped the class, and had everyone watch her being awarded with the belt. I was a very proud Mom. She told me that she definitely wants to be there on test day when she's ready for the next one, so she doesn't have to do a makeup test in front of everyone again.

Future black belts!