The best Part of Fall

My favoritest part of Fall is the leaves.  I remember playing in lots of leaves growing up.  We had a Ginko tree in our front yard that produced a lot of leaves.  Over these last two weeks, we have been collecting lots of leaves in our front yard. Lots and lots of leaves.  It was finally a nice Autumn day right after Halloween.  I wanted to take the kids outside to pass on the tradition of leaf jumping.

Whitney LOVED, LOVED raking.  She spent a lot of time raking.  I hope she will still love raking so much in the future when we want to give her that chore.  Now, Whitney has been asking us everyday if she can do more raking.

Rachel wanted to get into the action also.  She could not rake very well because the rake kept getting caught in the grass.  But oh well.  She thought it was fun and we ended up having to take turns with the rake.

After we got a big pile, it was time to jump in.  Whitney was the first one brave enough to step into the leaves.

I put Megan in the middle of the pile and she not impressed.  She started crying right away.

Rachel also got into the action of jumping in the leaves.

Whitney 'swims' in the pile.

Megan would get right on the outskirts of the pile and watch everyone else playing.  She still didn't like the leaves.

And getting buried under the leaves by daddy.  

Whitney and I had a leaf fight.  

Whitney got even more leaves on her during our leaf fight.  There was a lot of laughing, so it was fun.

I hope we have some more enjoyable Autumn weather.