Do you remember catching snowflakes on your tongue? Raking leaves into a huge (wet) pile to jump into? Sunday I watched the boys dart around Bloedel Donovan Park, catching falling leaves! It was exhilarating! The wind was blowing just enough to rustle the branches and cause hundreds of leaves to fall for the catching! 
When the winds died down, the boys started shaking fallen branches (Collin) and gathering leaves and tossing them in the air again (Owen) so that they might fall again and have a second chance to be caught! It was delightful!Cute Story: We went to a 7-year-old girl's fairy-themed birthday party Sunday. My boys and two-and-a-half-year-old Cody were the only boys present. While the girls (and Cody) fluttered around in wings and crowns, waving pixie wands they each got to make, my boys watched from the sidelines - present indeed and enjoying the party but NOT partaking in the fairy fun. *They did however LOVE the "fairy mist" - the water bottles each had holes in the lids so the water could be sprayed out into the cups! Their end of the table had all of the cups filled to the brims! But I digress ... Anyway, as soon as we got in the car, Collin asked: "Did you grab fairy wings for us, Mom?" Me: "No, you said you didn't want wings!" Owen: "What?!" Collin: "Mom, call Lisa! See if she still has them! We do want wings! We just didn't want the GIRLS to SEE us wearing wings!!" And so it begins ... we don't care what most people think of us, but girls' opinions - now that's a whole different story!
We headed home without making the call, but I had worn wings at the party, as had Kate. Plus Kate had an extra pair of wings at home. So the boys joined Kate, doned pink and green wings, and spent the evening, according to Kate, "flying like a bird in the air, Mom!" around the house.
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