Annual Pumpkin Carving

Every year I say we don't need to carve pumpkins because it's always the adults who do all the work and the kids don't even do much, but every year we still end up doing it, simply for the sake of tradition. We got the pumpkins free this year and they were small, so we finished all four in an hour after bathtime the other night. At least Leah and Andrew were more willing to get their hands in their and scoop the gunk out a little more this year. And they had specific ideas about the faces they wanted to carve.

Jacob wasn't so sure at all what he was supposed to do. We kept trying to get him to stick his hand in but he didn't know why he would do that. Then we gave him a spoon for scooping, but of course spoons are for eating. Finally we touched his hand to the gunk so he could feel it. He only said it was yucky because everyone else was saying it, but he didn't seem to mind touching it.

The disgusted faces are really exaggerated in these pictures-- they really didn't think it was that bad!

And here are the finished products. They are attempting to make the same face they carved on their pumpkins. Jacob's is a cheese grin. Leah's had an LOL emoji.

We've had so much rain and wind the past week we were never able to actually light them up so I have no pictures of that!