Fun in the leaves

Some of the most exciting words for a 3 year old boy to hear: "Let's go outside and rake leaves!" And then Timo races outside to help. "I being a good worker!" he says proudly. Don't worry, Timo, we will have more days like this in the next couple of weeks. It reminds me of last fall, just before Mattias was born, when he and I went out to rake numerous times, and I kept thinking, "Surely this will get my labor going..."  The changing colors and cooler days also remind me of two years ago, when we left the hospital, and left Gemma, and were driving home in the late afternoon on Oct 10th. There was a beautiful sunset and the leaves seemed to have changed colors during the two days that we had been in the hospital.

We love our neighborhood at this time of year!

Mattias was also elated to be outside, throwing leaves and crawling around (with no parent saying that he is being too messy!).

The best part is scooping all the leaves in the bin, and then climbing in to stomp them down. By the way, Jaja: Timo insists on wearing his "leaf jacket" to rake.
 

"Oh this will be fun; let's get a photo of the brothers in the leaves." Umm. Oh well.
 

"Mommy, what are you doing to me?"

Now, this just about captures it for Timo.