Eli was pretty excited for this day to come! We went to the pumpkin patch a few days ago and picked up a pumpkin. That pumpkin has been sitting on the front porch just waiting to be carved by a little 6 year old!
And today it finally happened! Eli drew out his plans of what he was going to carve on a piece of paper. He then drew it on the pumpkin, and off he went carving! So pleased with his planning skills. Haha!
Pretty good!
Off to parents houses. What did he want to be this year? Cat boy. The same as last year. I’m not too sad about it. I’m not one to spend money or time on a costume that will be worn for 2 hours.
Next stop, my parents house. Eli was really excited. He has been hearing about what dad and Aaron have been working on for the last couple of weeks.
To keep the social distancing theme this year going, they made a candy cannon. Powered by air, it shoots the treats to the kids.
The cannon was a success! The goal was for the cannon to shoot 6 feet. It went 6 feet and then some.
Prepared with ammunition -treats, they didn’t get a lot of kids this year. About 15 kids for the night. Pretty drastic considering they usually get around 120 trick or treaters.
Without kids to shoot candy to, we had fun with the gun. We kept powering up the poundage to see how far we could shoot the treats.
We had a fun time with the cannon and we decided to head home.
That evening we had a few kids come to the door. I didn’t get pictures or video, but Eli was really cute. I told him to give each kid a huge handful of treats, because I didn’t want any left overs. He did what I had asked, except for one kid. He took almost the whole bag and dumped it into this kids bucket.
After he left, I asked him why he didn’t follow my instructions of just a handful. He then taught me a lesson. He said, “that kid didn’t have as much candy in his bucket as all the other kids had. I wanted him to have as many as everyone else, so I gave him more.”
Thank you, little Pea for teaching me to think of others. You noticed what that child needed and you made him feel better by giving him more treats. Thank you for always putting others first and doing acts of kindness to everyone. Love you little, Pea.