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Dear Holly: Like an Only Child Now?

8 years, 6 months.

Dear Holly,

It appears that your brother is at the age now where he is too cool for some of the childhood activities he used to love doing.

For example, he expressed no interest in pumpkins this year.

So that meant more pumpkins for you!

You spent some time painting a couple of pumpkins pink, to decorate our house.

And though it used to be your brother’s job, this year Mommy and I shared the responsibility of actually carving the Jack-O’-Lantern for you.

Similar to the way your brother spent the first 5 and a half years of his life as an only child, it’s like you are getting a sense of what it’s like to be an only “child”… now that your brother is a full-on teenager instead.

You’re still into childhood activities, while your brother has mostly outgrown them.

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Jack: How You Influenced Your Sister Decorating Her Pumpkin

13 years, 11 months.

Dear Jack,

I suppose this makes the first fall season where you opted not to decorate a pumpkin. I guess that’s “little kids’ stuff” by now.

But I will say, I feel you definitely had an indirect effect on how your sister decorated the pumpkin I carved for her.

She innocently started out by deciding to draw some extra features on the pumpkin, like eyebrows and circles for cheeks. Then she decided to give it a pig nose.

From there, things certainly began to go downhill, as she drew boogers coming from its nose.

The potty humor creativity must have really been flowing, because after that, she drew underwear for the pumpkin; accompanied with steaming poop… on the outside, for some reason.

Granted, you didn’t even see her work on the pumpkin until after she finished it- and I truly believe much of her inspiration was to make you laugh, knowing you have always had a reputation in our family for turning everything into potty humor.

So yeah, I give you the credit for inspiring your sister to choose to decorate her Halloween pumpkin, accordingly.

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Jack: You are Our Family’s Pumpkin Carver

11 years, 11 months.

Dear Jack,

It is well established by now that you are the official family member who always carves the pumpkin for our front porch.

This year, you added a special touch: A pink Laffy Taffy that looked like the pumpkin’s tongue.

Not only do you do an awesome job, because you are so creative, but selfishly, I appreciate you always elect yourself as our family’s pumpkin carver because ultimately… I have zero interest in bothering with it.

If it were up to me, there would be no Jack-O’-Lantern.

It would never even cross my mind.

But we have you around, so it always gets done!

 

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Holly: You are the Perfect Picture of What Autumn is to Me

6 years, 6 months.

Dear Holly,

This past weekend our family visited Gentry Farm, as is our tradition. One of my favorite pictures I took while we were there is of you holding a pumpkin.

Once we got back to the house, I asked you what your favorite part of our visit was, and you said it was when you got to pick out a pumpkin.

You are the perfect picture of what autumn is me:

Getting to enjoy the beautiful colors outside with our family, after the mosquitos have all disappeared and before the bitter winter wind starts blowing.

You and I agree that Fall is the best season!

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Jack: Carving a Jack-O-Lantern with Papa

10 years, 10 months.

While Nonna was inside the house, painting baby pumpkins with Nonna in the kitchen, you were outside in the front yard with Papa carving up our family’s official Jack-O-Lantern for this Halloween season.

Thanks to some cheap props from the dollar store, you two were able to make a really cool, and scary, Jack-O-Lantern for us to display out on our front porch.

And that carved pumpkin alone serves as the extent of our family’s Halloween decorations, despite being surrounded by neighbors, and neighborhoods, of just about every other house decked out in huge inflatables and plastic skeletons in their front yards!

Dear Jack,

Love,

Daddy