Somehow, we ended up with eight pumpkins to carve. We started out with two giant pumpkins that we chose at the store. We added two very small "pie" pumpkins that Will and Caroline could carry around the house. Next, we went to After Dark in the Park at got two more large pumpkins. Finally, Will brought two medium pumpkins home from his field trip. I had been telling Ben we were going to carve all of them, but he didn't believe me. Every day, Will would ask if today was the day we were going to carve pumpkins. Two days before Halloween, pumpkin carving day FINALLY arrived. The kids were so excited, they could hardly stand it. Ben was looking forward to it until he figured out that I really wanted to carve EVERY single one of them. I don't know why he was surprised. I had gone to several stores collecting all kinds of different pumpkin lights several weeks before.
Here are the kids with the uncarved pumpkins.
Daddy started carving. At this point, he still thought he was only carving two pumpkins.
Will and Caroline both went to work drawing their designs on the pumpkins while Daddy was carving. Mom's job was to scoop out the pumpkin "goo".
Caroline wanted to pose with the first two completed pumpkins. Will told me that once the pumpkins are carved, they then become "jack-o-lanterns". I only made the mistake of calling them pumpkins after carving one time.
The final product. Notice all of the nice artwork on them besides what has been carved.
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