Pumpkin Carving!

RUS and I carved our pumpkin while R was at gymnastics today. Here we are getting started. RUS put on his game face, aka "smile, RUS!" and we got started.

I drew a couple of different faces on paper and let RUS pick the one he liked best. We went with a simple triangle-inspired face: triangle eyes, triangle nose, triangle teeth. Here's how it looked after we got the eyes cut out.

And here's the pumpkin, completely carved. RUS helped by holding crayons and occasionally touching the pumpkin with the crayons. 

After lunch, R and J and I worked on her pumpkin while RUS napped. Here we are pulling out the seeds. J actually did the carving this time.

R was very particular about how she wanted her pumpkin to look. She drew a couple different versions on paper, and J and I worked to transform her inspiration into something carveable. She had full veto power over our drawings and in fact was quite picky. She wanted a biiiiiiiiiiiig mouth and big eyes and a triangle nose "pointing up!" So, that's what we did!

Clearly a princess pumpkin, isn't it??