Pumpkin Carving

I told the kids we could carve one pumpkin this year...instead of one per person.  Matthew and Anna each drew designs they would like for our pumpkin face.  We ended up carving one face on one side of the pumpkin and one on the other side.

 

 I didn't take any pictures during the carving, 'cause I had goo hands, but here we are after.

The kids thought scooping the guts out of the pumpkin was too gooey.  :)  But they helped a little.

 Here is Anna's design for the face

It reminds me of a clown.  She wanted it to have a tooth and a tongue

 Matthew's design compete with "angry eyebrows"

 We put a candle in there but it was too light out to see it

Here we are putting our newly carved pumpkin on the front porch with our other Halloween decorations.

 Here is Anna arranging some of the decorations.  Everything needs to be just right!

And our pumpkin line up!

We got a lot of compliments on our pumpkins this year.  Toddlers in particular seemed to like our tactile alphabet pumpkin.  Hooray!