Pumpkin Carving

We each picked a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch to carve for Halloween. I ended up carving mine and Isaiah's and painting Brooklyn's. Case had to leave partway through to go fix a work emergency and he still beat me done with his huge pumpkin! We got his big one really cheap because it had this weird metal piece shoved in it. Because of this it was marked down by a lot which was really exciting! Anyway Isaiah loved helping me get all the guts and seeds out of the insides. We saved the seeds and made roasted pumpkin seeds for the first time. It was lots of fun. The not so fun part was cleaning up the disgusting molding mushy pumpkins after Halloween was over. One poor trick or treater stepped on Isaiah's mushy one and left a big old shoe print in it. Sorry I didn't get any pictures of how awful they looked after they turned all moldy and gross. I had to throw mine away before Halloween even started because it was so gross! Maybe next year we will have to carve them just a few days before instead of a whole week prior.

Here you can see the weird metal piece that was shoved in Casey's pumpkin. Zaya is so excited to start! He had his little pumpkin scraper and couldn't wait to help!

I made some pumpkin chocolate chip bread that day to eat while we carved the pumpkins. Well partway through all of the fun Brooklyn had a huge blow out! So I was changing her and when I came back Isaiah had grabbed a loaf off of the counter and started munching on it.  (Notice all the chew marks around the edges. ) I guess he couldn't wait for me to finish and come cut him a slice. LOL!

Inside the big punkin' (as Zaya likes to call them)

Isaiah decided to take a break from helping me clean out the pumpkins and he went and got Brooklyn's little  bed and  decided to climb in and rest by his sister. :)

He is way too big for it, but he was having so much fun I couldn't help but laugh!

He did get out after a little while though. He just needed a quick break I guess. :) Silly boy. He also loves climbing in her carseat and rocking himself. :

Casey's big one with Zaya's little one.

Isaiah called this one the scary punkin' (this one was mine).

All three pumpkins

Zaya having fun lighting the pumpkins.

Notice the difference in the seeds we got from the big one and the other two.  They were huge! And we didn't even keep all of them. We kept all of the ones from the two smaller pumpkins and there were still more from the big one!  I don't think I have ever seen pumpkin seeds this big before...at least not that I can remember.

After they were all baked up.

Brooky's cute little spider pumpkin.

I think I did pretty good for having no skill at art whatsoever! :)