Fun in the leaves

We feel so blessed to have a house that gets leaves to rake in the fall.  We were living in houses that didn't get leaves for several years in MI and when we live with Tim's parents.  We even find (well, maybe I shouldn't speak for Tim) that we don't mind the work of fall cleanup when we can have fun jumping in the piles first.  Tim's dad also made us a swing seat that we could hang from the tree.  We had a baby swing there for a while until the boys just couldn't squeeze in to in anymore!  This swing should be fun even when there are no leaves.

Tim was doing all of this with the boys when I was at work one day.  Its never as much fun if you don't have something to jump from...

Some other fun things that happened during early November...

It was driving Austin crazy that Christian had learned to cross his eyes and Austin couldn't.  It was driving Christian crazy that he couldn't whistle but Austin could.  They both took great delight in being able to do something their brother couldn't.  To their credit though, they both tried to teach the other how to do thing they wanted to do.  Austin can now cross his eyes too.  We're still working on Christian whistling...

Should I really post this???

The other night when we were washing hands for dinner Ezra was downstairs because he always realized when he comes to the kitchen sink to wash hands that he has to go potty.  Then Christian realized about 30 seconds later that he had to go too.  Let me just say that when Ezra goes potty he still uses a step to be high enough (even though he is really tall enough to not need the step and I am trying to break him of the habit).  He also takes FOREVER to pull his pants back up after and he bends way over to pull them up because he always pulls everything WAY down to his ankles before he goes.  AND he always stays on the step, right in the way, when he is pulling up his pants.  Some of you probably already know what happened.  Christian came to the kitchen where I was despairing of ever actually sitting down to dinner and said "Mom, I'm really sorry but I really had to go bad and

Ezra was in the way pulling up his pants and I went on his head".  oh. my goodness.