Leaf Day

Last week, Thomas and I made our annual pilgrimage to Mamaw's to collect leaves for the compost pile. (Now, you would think with all the trees we have on our farm, we would not have to go looking for leaves somewhere else, but since our trees are in woods with heavy undergrowth, the fallen leaves are very difficult to gather. I tried that one year, and after spending an hour scraping about on the forest floor only to glean enough leaf matter to make one teaspoon of compost, I decided that I had better look elsewhere for them...and get moving on planting trees in our lawn so that we would have "leaf insurance" for the future.) Of course, Thomas doesn't have enough frontal cortex yet to understand plant decomposition or planning for the future, but he sure did have fun playing in the leaves!

Fun in the Kitchen

Here are some recent pictures of Thomas washing dishes with Mamaw and "playing playdough" with Puff (the Magic Dragon). (Of course, Mamaw and Puff make playtime so much more fun!)

Thomas and Toad Are Friends

The other day when we were exploring outdoors, we found a toad crouching in the cool shadows of the woodshed. What a beautiful chap he was, with yellow eyes and speckled warts, and we just had to introduce ourselves. We played with him long enough for a photo shoot, and then we returned him to his dark quarters. Luckily, Thomas's cousins, Reese and Jackson were here to get some toad time too.