Pumpkin Carving

Last night we decided to carve pumpkins. Nick and I have carved pumpkins together for Halloween every years since we've been together. We decided that since Alec loves to help cook and work projects that this would be a great activity to do together! Alec wasn't a huge fan of the gooey stuff at first and it took some coaxing to get him to stick his hand in there. He got over it, but tried to eat some of the gooey stuff, calling it "peaches" (like Lyssa's baby food peaches) and quickly learned that pumpkin tastes very different. Alec liked Nick's pumpkin better because it was bigger...Lyssa was desperate for sleep at 6:45 and missed out on the entire event. Alec was super excited that he got to use a knife (thanks mom for the kid friendly pumpkin carving knives!) and help carve Nick's spooky pumpkin. Alec's interest was waining by 8pm and at a certain point I found him laying under the table reading books. I decided that was probably a good time to put my snuggle bug to bed. Nick laughed at my little added bow, but I think my pumpkin sums up my perspective of what Halloween is supposed to be: fun, cute and silly. Nick's pumpkin wasn't necessarily scary, but definitely more complicated to carve out. Thank goodness we were able to find those cool pumpkin carving face stencils online! Our masterpieces now light up the front porch, just in time for Halloween!