Pumpkin Carving

P has been in Halloween mode for a month now. Storefront decorations truly thrill him, and he's old enough this year to try to emulate these inspirational wonders at home. As our closet will only hold our, um, clothes, storing seasonal decor doesn't really factor into my homemaking job description. So P took things into his own hands. His wish for a spiderweb (see Iron Fairies) finally came true and he added it to his already decorated castle. Yes, that's right. He'd already finagled decor from his toy drawers and hung them with "S" hooks about the house:) Add to this the small squash and indian corn he chooses at our Monday co-op runs (and the leaves and nuts from the woods) and the kid has a full on fall decor thing going on here.

This week he found medium sized pumpkins at the co-op. (There were also Ginormous ones, I mean Crazy Big, but there was No way to get those babies home, or up four flights of stairs!) So he planned the remainder of our afternoon, we would carve scary pumpkins, preferably producing something with sharp teeth.

Unfortunately, last year's pumpkin carving problems haven't changed too much in the last year. P finds the smell of pumpkins noxious and the slimy insides disgusting :) So he excitedly made faces and directed the look of each pumpkin and then stood back, gagging, while I cut and scooped.

He did cut the teeth himself and also took the below pictures of the lit jack-o-lanterns. One is designated, by P, for the stoop (he reeeally wants to hand out candy at our house) and one for our table. He wishes they could stay lit 24-7, but after burning through a set of candles in one evening, is maturely limiting burning time to dark dinners :) I Love the zoomed in pic he took!