Jack O' Lanterns

Lesson learned: If you go pick out your pumpkins two days before Halloween you may have to try several different stores to find some decent, non-moldy pumpkins. We did finally arrive back home and went straight to the backyard to carve. We set up our carving station with blankets, treats, cameras and pumpkins for the perfect party.

 Everyone lets their 2 year old daughters play with knives, right?

 Hazel got bored after 4 seconds of sitting and crawled off to play with her toys.

 Bails and Daddy hard at work cutting all the 'yucky' stuff out of the pumpkin. She must be my daughter because 90% of the time she is complaining that something is yucky.

  

Hazel is still in baby mode so anything yucky is actually fun food.

 

 Especially when Daddy drops it all over the ground and doesn't want to pick it back up because it is sticky. 

 

 She was using all of her strength to shove the knife through that pumpkin and I am terrified to announce that she was quite successful. Luckily everyone did finish the activity with all their fingers and toes still intact.

 

 Hazel went back to not caring for awhile and she made her way through all the toys in the backyard...

 

And then she decided that raiding the candy corn bowl was much more rewarding.

 

 Typical Hazel getting her mouth cleared out after shoving something naughty in there.

 Thanks to her sister (and a little bit me to stop her from screaming in public) she has developed quite the sweet tooth.

 Candy corn, a pumpkin muffin...

 

or two...If it is sweet, she will actually eat it.

 

At this point Bailey had grown bored with stabbing her pumpkin over and over and ventured off to play.

 Which left Sam to carve all by himself. 

 With a few visitors popping in every now and again...

 

 And we eventually got our pumpkins all carved out and ready for our trick or treaters.

 Good work little girlies and Sam!