Leaf Head

While my husband was away this weekend, I recruited some small familiy members to help pack some of our leaves into the yard waste bin. I had The Banana on my back, and while they cooked up a lovely batch of mud soup, dirt coffee, and rotten-green salad, complete with sad moldy crab apples and overripe berries as garnish, I raked the leaves into a few nicely sized piles. Then they jumped in the piles and I reraked. And raked again. And again. Since bending over to scoop up the leaves was a little tricky with one child strapped to me, I recruited leaf scoopers who filled up buckets with leaves and handed them to me. I dumped the leaves into the green waste bin, and then as a treat for good behavior let them take turns jumping inside the bin to pack the leaves down, which they thought was great and amazing fun.

Right after this picture, she threw one of the more phenomenal fits of late, which led to a very premature bedtime.