Pumpkin Carving Letdown

Last night we decided to carve pumpkins in the Myers' house.  Nate and I have been anticipating this for some time now.  Last year Cooper was just several weeks old and not really ready to carve pumpkins.

So this year we were pumped.  We knew that Cooper was going to be all sorts of excited about all of the goo and slime that was coming out of those pumpkins.  It was going to be epic.

Now, before I go any further can we just take a minute and talk about the smell of a pumpkin.  How in the world can something that makes such wonderful pies smell so horrid?  I mean, it knocks you back a few steps! It takes a little while to get used to something like that.  And then you have to stick your hands in it to get out all of the muck and then the smell gets on your hands and then they smell like that forever and then you go to eat dinner and you still smell the yucky pumpkin smell and then you are just disgusted all together.

But it doesn't stop you from eating dinner because, well, food is on your Top 5 list.

Anyways...

We got our pumpkins ready.  Nate started on the first one.  I thought to myself, "Alright!  Time to get down and dirty!  My boy's gonna love this!"

But he didn't.

He could care less, actually.

"Hmm.  Maybe I'll check this out."

"Eewwwy gooey Mama!"

"Now leave me alone.  I'm trying to brush my teeth."

He has an unnatural attachment to his toothbrush.  Don't ask.

So we thought that maybe if we sat him in his Bumbo chair we could focus him a little.

Nah.  He just went to playing with his car.

And then playing with his car while watching China on A.N.T. Farm.

Lola was there.  She wanted some pumpkin seeds.

So then Cooper was getting kinda bored.  What's the next best thing to play with?

Mm-hmm.

So Nate went on carving.

And we finally got Cooper to play with a piece of pumpkin.  But he still wanted to watch China too.

But then he got to feeling a little sleepy...

...and he wanted Daddy.

But he persevered and finally finished.

Then it was Mommy's turn.

I had dreams.  I was going to do a monogram, you see.  It was going to be beautiful.  I sketched it out.  I had a plan.  I was a woman on a mission.

Until...

Well, until I accidentally carved out the wrong part of the M.  It wasn't pretty.  And I thought at first that it was fixable.  But alas, it wasn't.  And so...

Lola got her very first Halloween pumpkin.

Don't laugh.

It's not funny!

Alright, it's kinda funny.  You can laugh.

But just for a second!

As I was carving my pumpkin, I noticed that everyone had exited the kitchen.  Like, they scattered.  They were gone.  Nowhere to be seen.  Where did they go?

Good Luck Charlie was on.

Lola even disappeared.  Seems she had a new agenda as well.

"Yo.  I'm playing with my Kong.  Leave me alone punk."