Carving the pumpkin isn't as exciting as the pumpkin itself

I was really excited about carving the pumpkin and having Miss M put her hand in the pumpkin to pull out the seeds.

She gladly colored on her pumpkin with marker but when the goo started coming out she was gone.

 Miss M wanted nothing to do with demolishing her pumpkin.

 The pumpkin carving ended up with the adults scooping and carving while Miss M played.

Chris has been around for awhile now but Miss M just isn't too sure about him most of the time (all the time).  He works so hard to get Miss M to play with him and be nice to him. She just keeps yelling at him except on this day. We went to Aunt Nessie's for the morning and she was friendly to Chris and when he came over that evening they were still friends.  She doesn't quite know he's behind her here but still - they are both smiling for the picture - which is huge progress!

The finished product.  Miss M came back to find out why her pumpkin top comes off but basically she's now uninterested in her carved pumpkin.  She still gets excited when she sees her mini pumpkins.

Luckily, there's always next year! Thanks for being the best pumpkin carver/scraper ever Aunt Nessie. You're hired for next year!