Pumpkin Carving

Thursday night was pumpkin carving night at our house! We got a later start than expected because we had been downtown for some Halloween activities. By the time we had dinner and a bath for Sophie it was pretty late. Sophie turns into a pumpkin every night around 7:30, so we decided that it would be best for everyone if she just went to bed. Benny was super excited to carve all of the pumpkins he had picked out at the bison farm. We even had a few little ones that he brought home from school. We have two Mr. Potato Head sets that were perfect for the little pumpkins. Benny has a vampire and Sophie has a witch. Benny happily did both his and his sister's pumpkins.

Benny is generally a clean kid and doesn't enjoy getting very dirty. He was intrigued by the pumpkin 'guts' as he called them, but didn't want to touch them. He did help us scrape out the insides as long he didn't get dirty.

Here he is busy working on cleaning out the largest, or 'daddy' pumpkin. When he was picking out the pumpkins at the farm, Ben assigned one to each family member.

I couldn't resist scaring Benny with the pumpkin goo!

We had so much fun on pumpkin carving night. We listened to Halloween music and danced. I think our finished products turned out pretty great!