Preparations

First, you have to go to the pumpkin patch. It isn't quite as much fun posing for pictures as it was when Ethan was a little pumpkin, but he and Cassie were cooperative. The best part was watching the parents with their big cameras and tiny babies propped up against pumpkins. I wonder if they have any idea how fast the next seven or so years will go.

Next, you have to carve it. Ethan got a whim to have a grim reaper pumpkin (hey, at least it's relatively nonviolent) so I told him to Google it. Apologies to whomever we stole this idea from. The carving was a Man Thing this year; I was too busy making Cassie's "saddle." She will be a mighty steed tomorrow. Ethan is getting another use out of his knight costume. Pictures to come!