Pumpkin Carving

Happy Almost Halloween!  On today's activity list is PUMPKIN CARVING!  As you all know the first step of pumpkin carving is the growing of the pumpkins.  Most kids have to go to a pumpkin patch to find their pumpkins.  But not me, this year Grampy grew THREE pumpkins for us to carve.  One for Momma, Daddy and me!  Thanks Grampy!  Read on to see how it went.

First up, we had to decided on the faces we would carve into our three pumpkins.  I gave Momma the above suggestion, but she went a more geometric route with our first pumpkin.  But that was okay, as I still was allowed to scoop out the guts of the pumpkin.  You will notice, that I stuck with the spoon approach.  Momma went straight to using her hands.  I'm not certain what she was thinking as those pumpkin guts are GOOPY.  EWWWW!

After the cleaning of the pumpkin it was on to the carving station.  Since Momma is not the best with knives, Daddy took on this part of our factory line.  I worked the supervisor role.  I'm sure I could have handled the knife, but Daddy suggested we wait a little while longer before I give it a try.

Since we had three pumpkins to carve, a work break was in order.  I helped Momma to take a break by jumping in her lap!

But soon it was time to get back to work.  Here I am doing quality control checks on Daddy's carving work.

I'm happy to report that Momma and Daddy's work all passed inspection.  That made me a happy, happy pumpkin carving supervisor.

I was so impressed with Daddy's skills that I had to just give him a big hug!  I give the best hugs these days.  Momma says so.

Then, since Momma is Momma we had to squeeze in a quick photo session before the rain came.  Here are here two favorites!

Happy Halloween!