Tonight Alethea, Peter and I carved pumpkins with Grandma Debbie, Grandpa Chris, Grandma Denny and Poppa John.  Well, actually, the ladies mostly did the carving while the guys mostly watched sports, but everyone had a good time, so we’ll call the evening a success.

Alethea wondered why we cut a hole in the top of her pumpkin:

We all wondered why she insisted on tasting the pumpkin guts over and over, even though she clearly didn’t like the flavor:

I wondered if trying out a pattern I found online for a puppy pumpkin was a good idea, while Grandma Debbie and Grandma Denny wondered whether they would ever cut through the surprisingly thick and hard to carve rind of the paw print pumpkin:

So after a great deal of wondering our current status is:

(Costume… check! Candy… check! Puppy pumpkin… check!)

Ready for Halloween!