Halloween Week

So this week is going to be mostly Halloween prep.

Tonight was Pumpkin carving. I carved an Optimus Prime for my son and a Megatron for myself, as my son gets to pick what goes on the pumpkins. So this years theme is Transformers. The carving was interesting, because my son lost interest when we got to the pumpkin gut scooping, a little too messy for him. And his excitement about watching someone else carve a pumpkin was understandably low, and since he's three he's not allowed much unsupervised knife use nor is he ready to carve a transformer face into a pumpkin. So there was some friction over him not wanting to be a part of the family pumpkin carving. In the end a Halloween episode of Go, Diego, Go! that could be watched from the carving table solved most of the problems.
So now we have to get ready for Friday, which is his day to bring snack to pre-school, and then perhaps three rounds of trick-or-treating. There will be piles of candy by the time we're done, but not for snack at pre-school, they sent home a note asking us not to send in candy for the class.

On a side note, my goal is to enter 1 web video contest a week for the next 4 weeks. Updates here as a meet or miss that goal.