Carving Pumpkins

Never in my wildest dreams did I picture myself buying and carving pumpkins for Halloween! But with mommyhood, a lot of things have changed!! This year, Mati is more aware of what Halloween is and so it’s been so much enjoyable to do this type of activity with him. Heck, I’m even planning a Halloween party for him and his close friends next Friday and I’m having so much fun doing so!!

Despite Mati’s awareness and maturity, he’s still so innocent. I bought a couple of juices in preparation for the party next Friday and told him he would be drinking blood. He got in a really bad mood and told me, “No! Fea! Yo no quiero tomar sangre!” (No! Ugly! I don’t want to drink blood!) Or when I carved the top hole in the pumpkin and told him he had to take the brains out, he was a little bit freaked out, but soon saw that it was just a whole bunch of seeds!

And now for some non-Halloween funny Mati moments:

1. I’m trying to make him aware of his thumb sucking in an ultimate attempt at getting him to stop, at least during the day. The other day, I was telling him to stop it and he tells me in the sweetest voice: “But Mommy, it’s so good.” I answer that despite it being good, he needs to try to stop because he’s a big boy now. I turn around and hear him sucking away again. I tell him to stop and he asks how I know he was sucking his thumb. I tell him I have eyes on the back of my head. Yesterday we were playing doctor. Mateo the doctor tells me that he needs to cut my hair because I’m going to have an operation. So he start cutting my hair with his play scissors but then he starts poking through my head as if he was looking for lice. I ask him what he was doing and he answers: “I’m looking for your eyes!” I told him those were special mommy eyes and he wouldn't be able to see them. He asked how come he didn't have special eyes and I told him he would get them once he had children.
2. After school today, Mati asks, “Mommy, for breakfast tomorrow, can we go to a restaurant? I want to have juice and arepas.”
3. (Sorry, this is has to be in Spanish because of Mati's mispronunciation of the word "violence" makes it funny.) M: "Mama, la violeta es mala." P: "Por que? Ahora que hizo Violeta? Se volvio a mojar el pelo en el bano?" M: "NO! Violeta no!" Piensa unos segundos, "La vi-o-len-sa ... Marta dice que la vi-o-len-sa es mala." Como no estaba del 100% segura de lo que estaba diciendo le pregunte porque. M:"Porque Cristobal le mordio el cachete a Jose Alejandro y Marta dice que la vi-o-len-sa es mala." P:"AHHHHH, la violencia!!!"