Initiative

Evan had us laughing again yesterday. Chris and I complimented his initiative. Evan demurely asked us, "What is initiative?" We replied simply "doing something without waiting for mom and dad."

What did he do??

Carved a pumpkin by himself.

Now, before you call social services for us allowing our son to wield a pumpkin carving tool, let me fill you in on the back story.

Evan went on a field trip to a Pumpkin Patch with his home school preschool. Each child proudly picked a pumpkin of their choice. This was over two weeks ago. Evan has been longingly asking us to carve the pumpkin consistently. Yet we reminded him that Halloween is still weeks away, and we will carve it later.

Again, yesterday he asked us to carve the pumpkin. Again, we said No. So when Evan was playing outside and Chris and I were inside, he took matters into his own hands.

When I opened the garage door to check on him, he was sitting on the stairs with a pair of scissors "carving" his pumpkin. He looked at me and said, "No one was going to help me, so I am carving it." I just smiled and shut the door.

A few minutes later he came in with pumpkin and scissors to show his handiwork. Here are the results.

Now, what do you think of Ev's initiative?