Fall Fun

The last few years, I have been a major fall lover.  Growing up, I was never a huge fan of fall and always insisted that my birthday in early September still fell firmly in the category of summer.  Not fall.  Maybe it was always that fall was linked to the start of school and the end of summer freedom that made me loathe it, I don't know.  However, luckily I have been able to embrace the all the wonderful things that come with fall: FOOTBALL (duh!), all things pumpkin, cooler weather, and fun fall activities.

It's hard to believe that it's almost Thanksgiving and with it will likely go the mild fall temperatures and bring in the cold, icky winter.  Because we can't really be outside in the evenings like we were in the summer, Caleb's new favorite thing to do is to make pirate hats, boats, and airplanes out of newspaper.  He kept asking for more things so clearly Mommy needs to do some newspaper folding research!

While waiting for Daddy to get home one night, we decided to rake up some leaves.  Without any prompting or suggestions, Caleb immediately ran and jumped into my leaf pile.  I'm seriously thinking leaf pile jumping might just be innate to children because he sure knew what to do.

And the little guy was perfectly fine throwing leaves in the air, watching his big brother run around like a crazy dude, and (like everything these days) contemplating eating them.

 

We've spent our cool fall days painting our Halloween pumpkins, marking roads for our toy cars with tape on the living room floor, and making cookies. 

And of course this little guy turned 10 months old this fall!