pumpkins {jack-o-lanterns.}

We've been reading this cute little book from the library...

Spoiler Alert:  At the end of the book, they carve the pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern. 

So we went and bought a pumpkin since the only one we managed to grow was this big...

Ella LOVES pumpkins.

Look at her shocked face when she looked inside...

Miles was a good worker.  

"I'm doing all my jobs!"

"Pumpkins are yucky on the inside, but not on the outside."

Ella went down for a nap and Miles and I finished.  

He was very specific about how we should do it.  Insisted I had a "white piece of paper".  

I think he wanted me to use it as a stencil but just laying it by us seemed to keep him happy enough.  

"This is a pumpkin.  But now it's going to be a jack-o-lantern!"

 "We need a yight in it so we can yight it up!"

But he was not at all satisfied with the small candle I put in the pumpkin.  He wanted "a big, giant fire like when we go camping!"  


Dear God, please watch over our pumpkin and don't let it turn into a big, giant fire.  Amen.