Pumpkin Carving

After promising John that we'd carve the pumpkin today, it was finally time to do it after lunch. He almost wore us down because he asked so many times when we were going to do it. We assembled what we needed on the back porch and got started. Daddy cut the top and started to scoop out the insides. JHP's job was supposed to be scooping. But once he saw the messy insides, he wasn't much up for it.

So while we worked on the pumpkin carving, John worked on decorating his little pumpkin with markers.

JHP had picked a spider out of the pattern book. I punched the holes. I tried to get John to help, but he wasn't much interested in watching me punch holes. Then Daddy and I carefully cut the pattern out of the pumpkin.

Once we cut it all cut out and the pieces removed, it was time for neatening up out design. That was mostly Daddy's job.



And here's our finished work.


Funny story: On the way home tonight (more to come on where we were at), John asked if we could sing Happy Birthday to the Spider Pumpkin. Well, I guess. Daddy pointed out that it WAS kind of born today. So when we got home, we lit the candle, turned out the lights, basked in our achievement, and sang Happy Birthday to our spider pumpkin. The JHP tried to blow of the candle.

-EBP-