Jack-O-Lantern!

Today we FINALLY (as Jackson would say) carved a pumpkin in time for Halloween. I know, I know, the jack-o-lantern may not last, but you would have thought I waited until the day of to carve it if you asked Jackson's opinion. He's been asking daily when we are going to make a jack-o-lantern and every time he sees one he says, "See Momma? SEE! we NEED to make one!".

So make one we did. With James and Jackson in tow, I had some pretty great help. I think we picked out the biggest and toughest pumpkin of all time because my arms are STILL sore, but we had fun...

1st up we discussed design...We laid out some paper and pens and talked a lot about what we were going to do. James really wanted a car, "beep beep" but Jackson quickly shot him down and asked for a haunted house. Then a cat, then a witch, then a spooky tree, then a witch again. 

I said this was beyond my realm of drawing and patience and we mutually agreed to a face. With eyes, a nose AND a mouth. I didn't forget any of the important aspects, Jackson made certain....

 

We outlined the face onto the pumpkin, James used his highlighters :) and got right to cutting....

 VOILA! A JACK-O-LANTERN! The boys (I promise) were excited but it doesnt' look it in the photo...

 We decided it'd be fun to add candles of course to make it a true jack-o-lantern and even strayed from the real candles and instead used some LED ones. Better than be safe than sorry, especially around these maniacs....

 Both boys were ecstatic once we turned off all the lights and turned on the 'candles'. 

James was cracking up laughing and Jackson said, "Thank you soooo much for my jack-o-lantern Momma, I LOVE him!"

 It's the little things :)....