(upbeat intro music)
- [Chris] Good morning, everyone.
- Good morning, everyone.
- [Duncan] Good morning, everyone!
- [Chris] Oh boy.
- [Parker] We're gonna carve some pumpkins!
- [Duncan] We are gonna get a pumpkin and carve it!
- [Jacob] Let's carve a pumpkin!
- [Chris] I was just going to say,
we're gonna carve our pumpkins
but now you already know,
spoiler alert.
Are you gonna carve a pumpkin today?
- [Luke] I'm gonna carve...
- [Jacob] Look at this
- [Chris] Wow, that's a big pumpkin.
That's a big Pumpkin.
- [Parker] Some have a...
- [Chris] That's a small one.
That's a little one.
Oh, we've got some pumpkin competition happening here.
They're trying to decide who's is larger.
It does look like Parker's takes it by a little bit.
- [Duncan] Yeah.
- [Chris] Just a little touch.
- [Duncan] Mine third place.
- [Chris] But if you want, we can do a competition
where you count the seeds
and whoever's pumpkin has the most seeds.
- [Parker] I don't want to do that.
- [Chris] You don't want to count the seeds?
- [Jacob] I'll count the seeds.
- [Duncan] I'll count the seeds.
- [Chris] You're going to count the seeds in your pumpkin?
- Yeah.
- [Chris] Your pumpkin wins the tiniest pumpkin.
- Yeah.
- [Chris] The cutest little pumpkin.
- [Jacob] Do you think that's gonna have like, two seeds.
- [Chris] This is Jessica's pumpkin,
This is Luke's pumpkin,
My pumpkin and Bailey got a pink pumpkin this year.
Which has, I didn't notice it at first,
but it has these like blue streaks and it's really cool.
- [Bailey] It's really awesome.
And it has like little speckled things.
It looks kind of like an egg.
There were blue pumpkins and pink pumpkins
And I liked this one cause it has a little bit of both.
- [Chris] I think I'm going to cut this one open first,
so that, so that Luke has something to do.
He can take the seeds out of this.
- [Parker] I am gonna cut my own.
- [Chris] You're want to cut your own.
- [Parker] Yeah.
- [Chris] And we are definitely saving the seeds.
We love eating roasted pumpkin seeds here.
So Jessica has requested all seeds get preserved
for tonight.
And then we will snack on them around the fireplace.
That's my plan.
- [Jacob] And we like play games.
- [Chris] You want to play games too? Maybe.
But my goal for today
is for us to get these pumpkins carved,
roast some seeds and eat them around the fireplace.
I think that would be a really lovely way to end the day.
- [Jacob] Yeah,
Might be able to do a little bit of Iron Man too.
- [Chris] Oh, you, oh, you have Iron man hopes.
- [Jacob] Yes Iron man .
- [Parker] I'll use a saw for mine, don't worry.
- [Chris] I can't wait to see what the
interesting pumpkins look like on the inside.
Like are the seeds going to look the exact same as a regular
standard pumpkin?
I don't know.
We're going to find out.
(saw cutting pumpkin)
- [Chris] Whoa!
(all whoa!)
- [Chris] Look there's seeds in here.
See the seed.
You see it.
We're going to save these.
We're gonna put them in a bowl, Okay.
You want to put them in a bowl?
Back in the pumpkin.
No, you don't eat it.
You just, you just, gonna eat it?
That's your plan,
you are just gonna eat,
eat the insides.
Don't eat it.
- Is that okay
- [Chris] That's fine.
- Yeah, have you ever had pumpkin pie?
That's what the insides are.
- Well, no.
- [Chris] Yeah, that's a Spoon.
- [Bailey] I need a better thing than this.
- [Parker] Dad, look.
- [Bailey] I have no clue what I'm going to carve this as.
- [Jacob] Yeah, yeah.
Yay
- [Parker] Make sure you don't cut straight down
otherwise the top will just fall back in.
- [Jacob] Done.
- [Jacob] I wonder if Bailey's is
going to be pink on the inside.
- Uh
- [Chris] Ah cute.
- [Bailey] Parker got it.
- [Duncan] I can scoop that out.
- [Chris] Okay. So we're going to put all the seeds in here.
Good, star...
(laughter)
- [Chris] Job well done.
You reach in and you take all the goop
and you put it in here.
(seeds dropping in bowl)
- [Chris] Can you put it in there?
Get the goop.
Can you get some goop?
Get that goop.
Did you get some?
Oh, don't put it in your, no no no.
(laughter)
- [Bailey] I can't open it.
- [Chris] Bailey broke her Saw into the pumpkin.
- [Bailey] I kept... I'm trying to open it.
It's not working.
- [Chris] There's a blade in there.
Okay. Let me see.
(cutting pumpkin)
- [Chris] There you go Bailey.
- [Bailey] Oh yes.
- [Parker] Oh my word!
- [Bailey] Sad.
- [Chris] That's okay. That's okay.
Oh, there's a blade.
We found the plane.
That's okay here.
Here you just cut,
not all the way to the edge,
but like this.
That is a fleshy pumpkin.
- [Duncan] Bailey, why did you snap it in there?
- [Bailey] It wasn't on purpose.
- [Parker] Duncan wants to know,
why did you snap it in there?
- [Chris] Now that should
give you enough space to get in there,
but your lid will still stay on.
Luke's going to draw a face on his pumpkin
and I'm going to do my best
to carve out whatever he draws.
You going to draw on your pumpkin? Ooh.
- [Parker] I'm basically filling up a whole entire bowl
that's just my pumpkin.
- [Chris] Ooh, good eye.
Wow.
Another eye.
- [Luke] Eye.
- [Chris] An eye yeah, draw an eye.
- [Bailey] Parker, same.
- [Duncan] That's a nose.
- [Parker] What?
- [Chris] And then a mouth, draw a mouth.
Ooh.
Do you want a bigger mouth?
Yeah. You like it like that?
Okay. I like it.
I like this.
(inaudible)
- [Chris] Yeah.
That is perfect.
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- [Chris] That's so cute.
That's the cutest pumpkin, Luke.
Good job.
Oh my goodness.
Look at all those seeds.
Wow. Look at how clean your...
I haven't helped you at all.
Look how cleaned out yours is.
- [Parker] It's been hard.
- [Chris] Great job Parker.
Well, it looks like you've done just an excellent job of it.
Jacob's getting his design cut out.
Can I see your plans?
- [Jacob] Uh huh
- [Chris] Oh, I like that.
That's going to be a happy little pumpkin.
I haven't even started on my pumpkin yet.
I got this one this year.
It's green and
very cool looking.
And I wonder if it's going to be orange inside
and if it has seeds and what the kind...
Well obviously it's going to have seeds, it's a fruit,
but what kind of seeds are going to be in there?
If it's going to look like all the other pumpkin varieties,
but I just thought it was a cool one.
I could make like a zombie or,
Frankenstein's monster,
with a green pumpkin.
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- [Chris] That's the kind of seed that there...
these are a thick seed.
Very thick.
I hope they taste good.
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- [Chris] So that's Duncan's little pumpkin.
I think it turned out really cute.
Bailey helped them out with this,
but I think he wanted to carve a big pumpkin too.
And I think Jessica had that in mind
when she got her pumpkin,
because now he is carving Jessica's pumpkin.
How's it going buddy?
- [Duncan] Good.
- [Chris] Oh yeah.
That is,
that's turning into an eyeball right there. Huh?
- [Duncan] that's the nose.
- [Chris] Oh, that's turning into a nose,
Is what I meant to say.
I like that nose,
it makes a better nose than an eyeball.
I think.
- [Parker] Yeah, It makes a better nose.
- [Chris] Bailey started working on hers.
She's doing Mike Wazowski from monsters Inc.
and monsters university.
And she's,
she's getting very creative with how she's doing hers.
(giggling)
- [Chris] Are you being careful?
- [Bailey] Yeah.
- [Chris] Okay. And I noticed that your fingers are green.
- [Bailey] Oh yeah, I dyed the tongue.
(giggling)
- [Chris] And I've shown Jacob's
his is finished.
good job Jacob.
And Parker finished his,
I love this.
This is awesome.
Look at that.
- [Parker] Yeah I kinda messed up over here
because there's like a...
- [Chris] I don't think so. I think it looks great.
- [Parker] Yeah. Like all the things are like
really close to each other.
I really like the smile.
How high it goes.
- [Chris] I like that too.
- [Parker] That's a drawing technique that I do a lot.
- [Chris] I like it.
Then of course over here we've got Luke's.
I like it. It's like kind of like a crooked smile here.
That's an eye, that's an eye.
And then these are like nostrils.
I like that one.
And most importantly
we've got lots and lots of pumpkin seeds.
- [Duncan] This is the pumpkin I made for mama.
- [Chris] I like it.
- [Duncan] Put the light in.
- [Chris] All right. When it gets dark,
we'll put lights in these.
Okay?
- [Chris] And that's your little pumpkin.
- [Duncan] Put the light in.
- [Chris] Oh, I don't know how we'll get
a light in that one.
We'll figure something out. Okay.
- [Duncan] Uh, I'm putting a pretend one in a here.
- [Chris] A pretend light?
- [Duncan] Yeah.
- [Chris] Okay.
- [Duncan] Cause it's to small.
- [Chris] Yeah. It's pretty tiny for fire, huh?
(Upbeat music)
- [Chris] All right. It is later in the night,
this whole jar is the pumpkin seeds from the pumpkins
that we carved today.
And I've got two more trays cooking in the oven.
- [Jessica] And tomorrow it's supposed to rain,
which is a huge deal in California.
We haven't had rain in a while.
I don't even know when we had rain last.
And it's only for like a short period of time.
Like, I think it's like four or five hours tomorrow,
but it will be a lot.
And then it's predicted to like,
not ran anymore.
Like I think it's 86 degrees a few days later.
So we're going to make the most of this rain.
We're very excited about it
and hopefully we'll get to have
a little fire in the fireplace and I'd really love to play
some games then.
So we'll see how that works out.
I took Rue to her last
adult level two training class today
at Petco.
And she got a little certificate
cause she graduated that class.
We still have a lot more training to go.
She's still a puppy.
And she's a very large dog if you haven't noticed.
And I guess that when they're her size,
they're often considered
like puppies until they're up to two years old.
So, she's learning a lot.
She's really clever, and she's awesome.
And I didn't think to bring out our blogging camera earlier,
but here are some photos of our little graduate,
cuddling with Christopher earlier tonight.
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