Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Carving Pumpkins

The night before Halloween we finally got around to carving our pumpkins.  We put them inside in the morning so that we wouldn't be scooping frozen pumpkin guts that night!  It worked out great.

Cameron was not a big fan of digging the guts out of his pumpkin.  He thought it was slimy and kind of yucky.  Daddy ended up doing most of the guts removal from Cameron's pumpkin.

Leah, on the other hand, had no issues with the pumpkin guts.

She was a great helper - Mama would scrape the edges of the pumpkin and then Leah would scoop out the guts.

She loved how squishy and slimy it felt!

Up to her shoulder in pumpkiny-gutty-goodness!

Leah described how she wanted her pumpkin's face to look, then I drew her several options for each face part, she picked the one she liked the best, and I carved it for her.

Cameron showing Tim what he wanted the mouth of his pumpkin to look like.  Cam also drew out his entire face and then Tim carved it for him.

Cam carved a few of the pieces himself, but the pumpkins were so thick this year that it was even difficult for Tim and I to do.

Leah's finished pumpkin, complete with "kitty cat eyes," "big lips," and eyelashes, per Leah's requests.

Cam's finished pumpkin - he drew a "mean face" pumpkin for Tim to carve

 Finished, lit-up pumpkins!

Cute kiddos happy with their pumpkins

With their pumpkins outside

It was pitch black outside, so each time Tim took one of these pictures it was completely dark, then lit by the flash for a second.  We thought it was hilarious that Leah decided to make a goofy face for one of the pictures!

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