A Scary Moment

It is always scary to let your child do something by themselves for the first time.  Especially true if a knife is involved.  This year the Goob carved his own pumpkin.  I managed to refrain from saying (out loud), "Don't cut yourself." 

 He started by cutting a hole in the top. 

He figured in the size of his design and the size of the SFG pumpkin. What he failed to account for was the size of his hand in relation to the size of the hole in the pumpkin.

I silently watched as he used his critical thinking skills to solve the problem.  The STP suggested he cut a bigger hole, but the Goob recognized the flaw in that plan in that the lid would fall into a bigger hole.  Maybe a long handled spoon will work to remove the seeds and slime.

Too slow and relatively ineffective so he revamps the design to include a bigger mouth through which to remove the seeds. 

The pumpkin still holds tightly to seeds and slime and the Goob ponders his next move.  

The pumpkin ponders the Goob. 

Finally the Goob decides that a hole in the bottom of the pumpkin will solve the problem.  He confidently ASKS HIS MOM to cut the hole.  (Yeah for me.  Yeah for teaching critical thinking skills.  Yeah for being hands off and mouth shut.  Yeah for still being needed.)

There was just a little blood shed at our pumpkin carving this year.  The STP stabbed his thumb with a knife.