Fall Leaves and Other Fun

We've enjoyed a beautiful fall day in MN. We tried to take advantage of it as it might be the last for a while (I'm fully expecting it to drop into the 40s for my parents' visit next weekend!). We promised Greta that we could go fly a kite in the park first thing in the morning, and when she woke up from her nap at 3:30 her first request was "fly kite in park with daddy." I'm not sure what I'm more amazed at: her memory or her primitive sentences. Anyhoo, all was going well until Greta wanted to hold the kite string, which seemed to be an ok idea. Well, a lovely autumn breeze (more of a mini tornado) yanked that kite right out of her hand and perched the string handle in a tree. Ah well. When we left the park the kite was still flying! We'll check on it next time we walk down to the park, ie tomorrow weather permitting.

We came home and romped in the leaf pile mommy & daddy created as Greta napped earlier this afternoon. Good times...there were body slams, sudden bouts of narcolepsy (play sleeping is big in our house), and our own attempt to recreate burying daddy at the beach (since MN is short a nice beach we improvised with leaves). All in all the leaves were a hit, though the rakers were a little discouraged to see a whole other yard full of leaves fell in the 3 hours between when we finished raking and we went a'romping. Sigh.