Pumpkin Carving with Gramma and Papa

We carved pumpkins last night.  I told the girls we were going to do something GROSS.  This of course got them very excited (why is that with young kids??).  They very much enjoyed reaching their hands into the middle of the pumpkins to feel the gross and gooey insides!  They were actually very good at cleaning the pumpkins out.

Every year I forget just how hard it is to carve pumpkins.  Especially when you try to use the little patterns.  Wow!  I chose a goblin (fun!), Papa chose a spider (for Spider Strategies, natch), and Gramma chose a haunted house.  Gramma regretted all evening choosing such a hard pattern.  She was happier about it after she completed it and saw haw cute the haunted house was!

When we were choosing our patterns, we showed Brynn several but she didn't like any of them because she wanted to carve a smiley face.  We found a smiley face but it had big eyes with eyelashes.  She did not want that one because she insisted that the jack-o-lantern must have triangle eyes.  She decided to draw the face on herself and carve it - all by herself.  I was quite impressed!