Fall Leaves

The kids have been enjoying Fall so far, I think.  Everett enjoys the fact that I don't make him walk home from school with me every day anymore.  It isn't ever too cold for me (yet), but some days are chilly enough that I worry about the little guys in the stroller with the wind in their faces.  But, we still do go out when the wind is not too nippy.

 

We've also been raking leaves.   Our city comes by to collect leaf piles by the curbs of all the homes.  It is fun to watch; a large beast of an orange machine creeps along the edge of the roads while maintenance workers move an enormous vacuum hose which sucks all the leaves into the deep cavity of the truck.  William is always fascinated by it.  I think he is also slightly worried that those men might suck him up the tube, and actually, that hose is definitely big enough to fit him through.

 

One day, after William watched Joel painstakingly move all the leaves to the front yard, and after William had run through them, jumped in them, and rode his scooter into them for days on end, he was extremely disappointed to see that the monster leaf-eating truck was back.

 

"NO!!!!" he yelled.  "They are taking my pile!!!!"

 

 

 

And so, the leaf piles are just a memory.  We have a few leaves left but not enough to make a big enough pile to have this kind of fun in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(You know you've been having fun when large amounts of leaves hitchhike on your shirt.)

 

 

 

William's favorite activity was riding his scooter through the piles and feeling wave upon wave of leaves crest over his knees and crash under his back wheels.

 

And then he'd do his best to rake it all up again.

 

 

 

James, our little eat-everything-within-reach baby was confined to party in the swing.  He still seemed to enjoy watching everyone else have fun!