Oh, the Pumpkin Fun Just Never Ends

Today I thought it would be a nice family activity and fun project for Avery to carve our Halloween pumpkins. I thought she'd get a kick out of seeing the gooey insides, and find the carving etc. interesting to watch.

Before we started carving, I made this Pumpkin Pie Milkshake to get us in the pumpkin spirit.

If you like pumpkin pie, you'll like this milkshake. The graham cracker crumbles on top really made the shake. Kinda like a blizzard from DQ. So good!

As you can see from this picture, my "family fun activity" is seriously lacking a "family." I started the project out by myself (which, actually, I found to be just fine...kind of relaxing to be honest), while Abe was setting up some shelves downstairs and Avery was running around down there with him.

I had to pull my hair back once the project started getting down and dirty :)

Then Abe came upstairs and decided to join in on the fun. As you can see Avery is missing from all photos. She stood about ten feet away from the table at all times, no matter how many times I tried to get her to dig out some of the pumpkin guts. She just kept giving me this disgusted look, like "lady, there aint no way I'm coming anywhere near that pile of slime." She's not one to like being messy, so I guess I'm not surprised that she wasn't into pumpkin carving.

Abe eventually got bored with the carving and decided he would rather be finishing his shelving project than cut out the rest of the little holes in the design he picked (which was the Blues Clues dog...since Avery loves dogs so much). So I ended up finishing his pumpkin, along with mine. And of course he left me with the mess :( which actually wasn't all that bad, since I didn't have a two year old helping me with the carving.

Here's our (ahem, MY) finished pumpkins. While the family fun activity was kind of a bust, I think the pumpkins turned out pretty cute.