Punkins

We carved our pumpkins only a couple of days before Halloween this year.  Tyra came over and carved with us.  Cason and Neely painted theirs.  

Caso was funny because he wanted Jess to carve out a lid even though he was just going to paint it.  He painted it quickly and then abandoned us.

Neely had fun painting hers, 

 

until she noticed there were also sharp tools to be had.  She spent a lot of time trying to sneak a carving tool.  Finally she settled for the scooper and scooped all the innards BACK into Cason's pumpkin.

Paige mostly carved hers by herself.

She did ask Jess to help with the mouth.  He failed apparently, because she ran to her room crying that she'd never forgive him.  Ha.  Bit of an overreaction if you ask me.  :)

Jess gave his the annual star eye . I've decided I'm only carving white pumpkins from now on.  It looked so cool.

I did have a picture of Tyra's but can't figure out where it is!

Here's one of our Jack'o'lantern family:

Jess has started working from home.  He said he likes that he can wake up at 5:58 to be "at work" at 6 am(8 am in Oklahoma City).  Once we're all awake it's a bit hard for him to focus.  That's going to take time for him to get used to I think.  His first day was Nov. 1st.  We tried not to distract him, although the kids did seem to like playing near the computer where he was working.  I don't think I could focus if it were me.   They're too cute and funny.

Neely was way into affectionate poses for pics that day.

I took them for a walk to give Jess some time to work.   There were far more leaves on the sidewalks than even the day before.  They knew November had arrived.