I love this season.
The weather is great, the leaves are beautiful (more on that
later!) and its just a great time of year. We’ve been going
outside a lot lately, though not as much as I’d like to. It’s
still tough to coordinate sleeping/nursing/outside schedules,
but we manage. There is no shortage of raking to be done!! See
all the leaves on the ground in the picture and video? I raked
that part of the lawn clean about three times in the past week
and there are still tons of leaves on the trees! Last year the
previous owners did no raking, so when we moved in at the end
of October there were more leaves than we could rake. No
kidding! I was raking leaves this past spring :) There’s got to
be a more efficient way to handle this process, but for now
it’s a good excuse to go outside and it keeps us busy.

Here is a little (ok, long), mostly silent
video of them in the yard today.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im686PkgmNg]Notice his new
kicks?? Ok, probably hard to see in the video. I took a picture
of them, but it’s not really blog worthy :) The only way you
can tell they are new is because they are cleaner than his old
ones. We went to Kohl’s today and I told him we were going to
get new Vans. He was psyched! We found them on the shelf and he
grabbed them and put them in the stroller. I was showing him
other shoes (“these shoes have cool dump trucks on them.”
“look, it’s Elmo”), but he kept saying “no, want the Vans.”
Can’t argue there. When we got home he brought them in to show
Alan and promptly put them on. So we’re all set with sneakers
for now. No need for the Crocs this winter (though have you
seen the fleece lined crocs?).