Five Little Pumpkins

Each year, we pick out the biggest pumpkins we can find, and then realize when it is time to carve them, that maybe we would have been better off with a smaller pumpkin. Every year, Caleb carves his pumpkin, and then I carve mine and the boys'. This year, the boys wanted to be more involved and so they each drew us a picture of what they wanted theirs to look like. We had them clean out the inside of their pumpkins and then we carved the faces. Gavin really struggled with having to touch the "seaweed" inside the pumpkin. Trenton had such a big pumpkin, but he didn't complain once about having to empty it out. Gavin went for a simple pumpkin, circle eyes and nose and a smile. Trenton's was much more detailed and Daddy very patiently carved it for him. They both were very good sports about the fact that their pumpkins didn't look quite like their pictures. Caleb and I both carved our own pumpkins and decided that this year we might leave Addison's plain! After we were all done, instead of dinner in a pumpkin, we had Addison in a pumpkin!


The boys loved seeing their final products all lined up and lit up. It was
some great family time, but there was quite a mess to clean up!