Pumpkin Carving with Isaac

Last year we didn't participate in too many fall festivals or traditions.  Isaac was only 4 months old and since we lived in an apartment at the time we didn't even bother with trick-or treat.  The extent of our celebration last year was a My First Halloween bib and I painted a couple of pumpkins.

This year is an entirely different situation.  Yesterday we picked out two big pumpkins to carve.  We have spider webs strewn through all of the shrubs in the front yard and our you've been ghosted ghost from the neighborhood on the front door.  We've already been warned by the neighbors that trick-or-treat is a big deal so I've been stocking up on candy for the past few weeks.  Several of our neighbors have orange lights and inflatable pumpkins outside.

With halloween quickly approaching next week it was time to start carving our pumpkins!  This year I had a helper too.....kinda of.....

He was very curious to see what mama was doing but he wasn't that interested in helping me clean out the pumpkins.....

When he was no longer interested he played on the deck and papa captured some great photos of our growing little man.

I cleaned the inside of the pumpkin placing the discarded contents onto a trash bag in attempt to simplify the cleanup process.  Let's just say it was a great intention....Isaac had other plans....

He picked up the pumpkin bits and squeezed the slimy stringy bits and tossed them all over the place while giggling.

He was covered in pumpkin seeds.....

He managed to slip a couple of times in the pumpkin too which meant he was covered in pumpkin slime! Once the pumpkin was all finished it was time to head in for dinner.

This boy loves corn on the cob and tonight was the first time he wanted to hold the cob himself.  He's simply growing up too fast...

I only managed to get one of the pumpkin's carved even though both are cleaned out.  I'll have to finish the other one this week and get pictures before they start to wither.