Baking a real pumpkin pie

We have called Lyla "pumpkin" since she was born. Neither of us knows why we picked that nickname but it has stuck. We call her other names but that is the one that has continued since she was a baby.

Aunt Tracy planned to make a pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving using a real pumpkin (not that canned pumpkin isn't real but she was going the extra mile). It was really fun to see Lyla get right in there and participate in the cleaning, seed scraping and general messiness in the kitchen.

I don't eat pumpkin pie but it was gone in short order so it must have tasted good. And no one turned up with a sick tummy, so I guess she kept up with Iowa standards of sanitization while she was doing the prep work!