Pumpkins

Our boys are learning all about Halloween this year. They've never really seen decorations and keep asking why people have skeletons in their yards and ghosts in their trees. We've done variations of trick or treating but the real deal will be a first for our kids next week. More important on their list last weekend was the carving of the pumpkins.

We went with one big and two little since Matt and I would be doing the bulk of the work.

Alex was NOT thrilled with the guts.

We made him get his hands dirty if he wanted to participate and he did so very reluctantly.

The boys picked a bat and a ghost for their pumpkins and were very pleased with the results.

Alex chose a candle for his but Ben used a toy red light to make his bat extra spooky.

Pumpkin carving is serious work. Apparently this one required power tools for precision drilling.

It turned out very nice and even got a few dowels for reinforcement. I always have to laugh at the differences between Matt's and my work. I free-handed the boys' designs so they turned out generally as requested but a bit crooked. You ask an engineer to create something and it will be exactly right!