Simple Pleasures

Today two of Jake's best friends came over to play. After exhausting anything fun to do in the house, they wanted to go outside to play in the leaves. If you could see our yard right now...we have plenty of leaves to play in. It's terrible for Ike, but fun for kids.

They played for at least twenty minutes, taking Jake's wheelbarrow and filling it with leaves. They then dumped the leaves into a pile. I think the plan was to make a pile big enough to jump in, but they all lost interest before they got that far.

Apparently there just weren't enough leaves already in the yard for these three overachievers. I looked up from my book (yes, I'm lazy and wasn't helping) to see all three of them throwing their bodies at one of our larger trees. I watched, trying to figure out why they wanted to slamdance with trees...when I realized they were trying to get the leaves to fall down...by knocking them off the giant tree...

Eventually a leaf fell (because of the wind, not the kids' efforts). Jake's friend Lexi reached down to grab it, held it over her head triumphantly and shouted, "A leaf fell! A leaf fell!"

Too cute. One more reason to love fall.