little bit of Halloween

In our quest to give Mac the quintessential American experience this year, we carved a pumpkin this afternoon. Sadly, this was Mac's first remembered jack o'lantern experience in his 6 years of life. Sad, right?

We bought one of those carving kits that comes with a book of ideas. None of the ideas included triangular eyes and nose and jaggedy teeth, which is about my jack o'lantern speed.

Jimmy totally bailed on me and said that he didn't get any of the creative genes in his family. Nor did I, but how do you explain that to a kid who wants to carve a pumpkin? He didn't buy the whole "the pumpkin will last longer if we don't cut it" story.

So we bought a pumpkin at our next-door church's pumpkin sale, he picked out this design and away we went. I leave you our carving experience in photos.