Pumpkin Season

This year we painted pumpkins (just small pie pumpkins) and carved them.  The painting was a huge hit with all three kids.  It kept them entertained much longer than I anticipated and was less messy than I thought as well.  Maddie did an awesome job on hers but the boys' painted pumpkins were not the cutest.  They had fun though so that was all that mattered!

Now onto the carving . . . next year, only Maddie gets to carve a pumpkin.  She can basically do most of it herself and did a great job.  Micah is physically able to do lots of the work, but he doesn't have the attention span to stick with it.  So he basically just bugged Mason the whole time which was quite counterproductive to getting the pumpkins carved.  Maddie did her own, I did Micah's, and Mark did Mason's.  They turned out good but not exactly the process I had hoped for.