Pumpkins

I have had constant reminders about the lack of pumpkins at our house and since the annual neighborhood pumpkin carving party is approaching quickly, today was kind of our last chance to check pumpkins off the list. Fortunately, it stopped raining long enough this afternoon to make that possible.

I forget how much is involved in finding just the right pumpkin for carving.

Peter, Peter Pumpkin-Eater. (Well at least he likes the seeds and pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.) He liked the little pumpkins/gourds that he could hold in his hands. The nice thing is, they're a lot cheaper, but I don't think I will try to carve that one. Hopefully he won't mind.

Little Miss Muffet sitting on her tuffet. (Alright, it's actually Duffy sitting on some pumpkins but I promise she would also be frightened away if a spider came along.)

Amelia Bedelia

Samantha and her new friend.

Jonas, who appears to be much happier here than he actually was. Apparently, even picking out your pumpkin counts as "running errands" and we all know how he feels about that.

The whole gang happily supplied with pumpkins. Now that we have the pumpkins, it's probably time to start thinking about costumes. Here's hoping we pull that one off in time!