Last night we finally got around to carving the pumpkins. The kids have been bugging every night to do it
I put Martin in charge this year, for once he could scrap out the slimy pumpkin seeds with the kids
So he starts cutting off the top of the pumpkins, and next thing I know he's scraped out the insides. I reminded him that this is what the kids want to do, they are still kind of young to do any cutting, so he picks up a few hand fulls of goo and puts it back in the pumpkin
I was sure the kids would be annoyed that he had done everything already, but Kaleb took the lid off his pumpkin and said "Look Scarliee, its already done, COOL"
They both got a black marker and drew faces on their pumpkins, and then with some help used the pumpkin carving knife to cut out the pieces.
All told the carving took about 5 min, and with Martin doing most of the work, there was nothing to clean up. So now I'm rethinking my strategy of past years, where pumpkin guts ended up all over the counters , floors and in the kids hair
Here's the kids pumpkins....
Kaleb patiently waiting for Scarlett to finish with the carving knife..
This year Halloween seems to be never ending, both kids have gone to Halloween parties, our neice's birthday party had a halloween theme, then theres the daycare parties, school parades. I don't know why but this year I will be glad to see Halloween gone
