Pumpkin Carving

We fashioned our jack o' lantern just before lunch today. We'd meant to do it earlier, but it just didn't happen. We carved just one, which means the rest of the pumpkins can continue to hang out on our porch even though Halloween will be over in a few hours!

The girls were thrilled and dug right in. (Indy opted for a nap.)

Pumpkin slime will not deter our children. (Come to think of it, not much will deter our children.)

The girls have been talking in trembling voices about the "scary decorations" in the neighborhood for weeks, so we knew that our jack o lantern would have to be a happy one. (But, hey, who could hang out at the circus and not be happy? He never had a choice!) Once we were done we wished we'd managed to carve it earlier in the week, so that we could have enjoyed its glow longer....

Posed photographs are not our strength.

Happy Halloween, friends!