Monday, October 27, 2008

Pumpkin Carving a la Daddy

Last night John and Katie carved our family pumpkin. I say "John and Katie" carved the pumpkin because they did the bulk of the work. I was busy video taping, taking pictures, and cleaning the seeds. And Will? Well, Will was pretty much scared of the whole process. He would NOT touch anything having to do with the insides of the pumpkin. It was probably for the best...what a MESS it would have been to have him flinging goo from one corner of the kitchen to the other! Next year Deb, next year...

Mr. Happy/Funny Pumpkin


Mr. Surprised Pumpkin (Katie's masterpiece)


Mr. Scary Pumpkin

Katie wanted to have a lot of faces on the pumpkin so she made John do a happy/funny face and a scary face. Then she wanted to draw a face on there as well...and John carved that. Yes, somehow John managed to get 3 faces on one pumpkin. I wish I would have thought of that when I was a kid. My brother-in-law, Wally carved all the pumpkins for us when I was younger. I wish I would have made him do 2-3 faces!

This was right at the beginning of the carving session. Will acted like he wanted to help...then he felt the goo and didn't want to have anything more to do with it!


Our illumination...note the scary face on the wall...the pumpkin's AND Katie's...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

For you Wally probably would have done 2-3 faces then... but now we have all we can do to just get one out of him!

Denise

Shelley Kubitz Mahannah said...

That last picture is awesome!