We played in the grass along the road first, where a couple of houses had raked all their leaves up to be collected.
When I texted a picture to my mom, she replied back that it reminded her of when my brother and I were little. I showed the picture to a girl from work who said she wished it was socially acceptable for her to jump around in the leaves.
From our roadside leaf pile, it was off to the park (don't worry, park pictures to follow in another post).
We slid and we swung and we climbed... until we saw the mother of all leaf piles:
It was way bigger than it looks in the picture, too. Huge. At this point, Mason knew how it was done... and he did what any self-respecting baby in his position would do. He jumped.
It took about thirty seconds for me to realize there was no good reason for Mase to be having all the fun. Not socially acceptable? Ha. Lucky for me, having a baby gives me permission to do whatever silly, ridiculous thing I want. So... I jumped.
As Mason and I were rolling around in the leaves giggling like crazy, two sixteenish-looking girls walked past. I watched them say something to each other, wave to Mase, and then dive into our leaf pile. They got up quickly, looking around, making fun of each other, and brushing the leaves out of their hair.
A few minutes went past and a woman (in her forties, maybe?) who had been eating lunch at a picnic table came over to us. She asked Mason's name, said she was on her lunch break but had wanted to do this all day... and jumped right in with Mase! I couldn't believe it. It made my day to know that my baby had made hers.
I don't care who you are... there is nothing like a pile of leaves and a beautiful fall day.
2 comments:
Haha. I love that, that lady came and jumped with Mase. Too insanely cute! I wish we had leaves like that in Florida to jump in.
The picture of Mason w/ the leaf on his forehead and that shirt on is too cute. He will save the world!
oh how much I miss reading up on this lil guy. It's been way too long.
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