carving, carving and more carving...

So the more kids you have, the more pumpkins need to be carved by....Me. :)
Ethan is a free spirited artist when it comes to pumpkins. He picks what he wants, (you know those pictures from the carving books) but then he precedes to carve his own face. He actually did make a square and somewhat of a circle in his, before Travis helped him make Iron Man. This is his cute concentrating face... Kaylin would make tiny punctures and groan each time the knife wouldn't come back out of the pumpkin. So I helped her do the rest. She picked the cat. On the back we carved out her name too.

Here's the finished pumpkins! Kaylin's shining Ethan's SWAT team flashlight in her cat, then Aidrian's is a swirly happy guy--I mean "baby", mine is a witch, and Ethan's Iron Man. Little story about my witch--I'm telling Travis how I've never been much of a pumpkin carver, just not that good and I'm going on carving my witch's face and cut around her whole face cutting it completely out of the pumpkin! So it looks like a funny oblong shape missing from my pumpkin. Whoops. Now we have toothpicks holding her face in. :)

Here's the masterpiece in the making...Travis was so concetrated he heard or saw nothing else that night....It's funny now....but he does have quite the skill in this area!

WOW! Isn't that cool?? He always tries to do some kind of Maori Warrior...