pumpkin carving

Last Friday was pumpkin carving night at our place. While playing some games on the Thomas and Friends website in early October, P saw a template to make a Thomas jack o'lantern. He also decided that C should have an Elmo pumpkin, "'cause he likes Melmo". I thought these ideas were adorable, especially since they were kid-generated. (I think Daddy A is almost ready to forgive me.)

Since the boys are still so young, they are more involved in the gutting of the pumpkins than the actual carving. Both of them were really into it!

C wanted to examine the pumpkin's insides first.

P was more than happy to handle "cleanin' out the gunk" in his pumpkin right away.

C got comfortable with the "gunk" pretty quickly. too.

Daddy A and I (mostly Daddy A, though) finished up the pumpkins after the boys were in bed.

We ended up with this for P


and this for C.


P ended up deciding that his jack o'lantern was James, so we used a red light inside to make it look like a red train. Both boys were very pleased with their jack o'lanterns!