Carving Time!!

Last Friday, amid pizza/movie night (a Friday tradition until the kids are old enough to all do board games, when it will turn into Friday night game/pizza/movie night), we carved pumpkins. My parental units went to Wisconsin on their annual meandering no agenda trip and got a truck load of pumpkins for the kids to pick out to carve. Jack of course, chose the huge pumpkin that you're not supposed to carve and was bound and determined to carve this 8 kajillion pound monster.

He did it semi-nude. Check out those spidey undies. It doesn't get more manly than carving in your manly underwear!!
Maddie enjoyed the carving too. Or maybe she just enjoyed having her photo taken. That's a John face if ever I saw one! Nate wanted to carve all on his own. He needed just a bit of help.
Check out the pumpkin size ratio to Jack. The thing was ginormous.

This is the guts from inside the big pumpkin. As John said, apparently photsynthesis means nothing when you're a huge pumpkin. The seeds had already started sprouting. It was kind of a fun experiment comparing this to the mini-guts that came out of Nate and Maddie's pie sized pumpkins.

The sprouting seeds in the 'gut bowl'.
Nate looks thrilled, doesn't he? We are constantly wondering why he's our "dirty kid". And yes, I could have photoshopped the plumbers crack out, but why? What a memory! It's a family affair!