Raking Leaves!

The boys have been crazed about raking leaves. Kade initially started it because he said then Dad will say, "What a good worker." Then somehow money got thrown into the idea and after Darryl came home I heard it said that he was going to give them each $5 for raking the whole back yard. The spent the whole night raking about 6-8(yep they were in the dark-- well they had the porch light). The next day(which is the day I took the pictures) they ran outside and started raking as soon as Kade got home from school. [Side note: It was pajama day for Red Ribbon Week so the boys were still in their pjs on one of the days. :)] They raked again until about 7. At about 6:30 the wind kicked up and so leaves kept falling and covering the ground. The boys were so disappointed. They wanted me to make them stop. "We just got ALL the lawn all clean and then. . .whoosh!" I had them look up at the trees and see that they were covered with leaves still and so the yard was going to be covered again and again. They decided to give raking a break for a while until all the leaves are on the ground. ;) Love, love these boys and the things they become obsessed with!  Cole wants to be just like his big brothers so he grabbed a rake too.  He's had his picture taken one too many times lately.  I walked outside with the camera and immediately he started yelling, "cheese!"  I'm not sure what the pose was when he stuck out his belly-- funny kid.  Clint loved getting in the pile and throwing the leaves up in the air.  Kade loved raking a big pile and jumping on it.  I think he thought the idea was better than the real thing.  He would always lay there after the big thud like, 'that wasn't a nice soft landing like I expected.'