Mickey the Pumpkin

When it was time to carve pumpkins this year, we had very little time left to do it.  So we decided to carve one family pumpkin.  We also chose to carve some Mickey ears, or Toodles as the kids calls them, into it to make it a pretty simple design.  Since we all love Disney, it was appropriate.

Andy cut off the top to reveal our pumpkin's innards to the boys.  Ephram had a look of shock, and Charlie just did what he does best, laugh.

Then I started to scoop out the guts.  Ephram wanted to help, but was too scared to touch it at first.  Apparently, from the looks of this picture, Charlie feared something horrible was happening.

Then, in his usual style, Ephram had watched enough and he hurried to grab a scoop and join in.

Before I knew it, he was double-scooping it.

In fact, he even kept scooping out what he could while Andy was carving.

And Charlie kept Macie smiling the whole time.

On Halloween night, our pumpkin looked perfect.  

(And wasn't rotted at all since it had been carved less than 24 hours earlier.)

(Teaching the kids procrastination early.)