Pumpkin Carving

Ezri drew a face on and Amanda carved to her design.
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Ivan hammered little clear pegs into the pumpkin with help from Eric and Grandma Liz.
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Getting the goop out of pumpkins involves gross sound effects.
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Ezri and Amanda doing some pumpkin designing together.
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Finshed pumpkins on the stoop
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Some of our pumpkin carving crew with the pumpkins
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Ivan in costume helping load the electric candles into pumpkins.
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The pumpkins have all been loaded.
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Lighted on Halloween Night.
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Halloween Window Painting

Ivan decided to paint a ghost on his window.

The tongue bite of concentration.
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Proving he could reach without any parental assistance.
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Here he is with his completed ghost. (His fly’s unzipped, but I think it works for him.)
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And an earlier shot of Ivan pretending the leaf pile is his bed.
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Scene from Halloween

Ivan is painting his pumpkin.
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Here is trick-or-treating at Meghan’s house.
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Standing in a muddy puddle with a friend. Ivan called the puddles “cuddles.” He also talked about how lobilly he was before he got his boots on straight. “Lobbily” is wobbly.
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Wagon duo on the roll to trick-or-treat. They both had a great evil laugh that they were busting out as we rolled along. “Mwa-ha-ha-HA!”
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