Autumn 2010

Autumn is giving way / has given way to Winter and I'm only just getting these photos up! We had some time at the Berkley house the other weekend and the lawn-care guys just happened to arrive on Sunday morning to clear away all the leaves. There were SO MANY!!!! Here they are using a leaf-blower to corral them and making a huge pile on the edge of the road for the rubbish collection people to collect (yes they just come along and suck them all up for us down there!). And of course a small boy had to spend some time jumping in the pile too!




We collected leaves on the way home from pre-school one day and made a tree - just like I used to as a child! The main difference between when I used to do this and Cooper doing it is the addition of sticks for branches. Here he is with the masterpiece wearing his new favourite red woollen pyjamas.

Halloween was a freezing cold night and we had about 120 children come to the door. Pretty-much dressed similarly to other years that I've posted about before as were the house decorations around the town (see Oct 2007 post here), but less ninjas and more super-hero types. Cooper dressed as a train engineer to give out the candy (seen here with a rather heavy bowl of it!) - the previous day at his pre-school 'Pumpkin Party' he was a fireman (link here to pics as well as to his pre-school 'Thanksgiving Feast') and at library story-time earlier in the week he was a construction-man. Each costume was a secret until he appeared wearing it for each event so I wasn't too sure what was going to appear each day that week!

We had Thanksgiving at Jamie's mom's house and it was such a relief not to have to have it here with all the cooking etc. Click for pics on Kodak here....

Birthday photos coming next.....