These pictures are from a few weeks ago, but we've done a lot of this lately for football saturdays - played outside in the leaves while dad grills stuff. Will doesn't quite understand what to do when you put him in a pile of leaves - I guess I expected he would frolic about and roll around in them, but he basically just kind of lays there trying to figure out what the leaf pile is. I guess it gives him plenty to investigate. He does a lot of taste testing to see, for example, if red leaves taste the same as yellow ones.
He also likes to tear around on his tractor in the backyard lately. Kristi and Mike got him this toy shortly after he was born (they also hail from Iowa so they understand the importance of a little boy having a toy tractor), but he's only recently grown into it. Will's pretty good at climbing on the tractor by himself and pushing off with his feet to scoot all around the yard. He's not great at climbing off of it yet, but eventually he tries and it usually results in a crash.
As some of you know, our cats are constantly looking to escape from their prison: our warm, safe house where they have unlimited food. So we let them out whenever we'll be in the backyard but we have to put the leashes on them so they don't run away forever. We don't tie the leashes to anything, but wearing them has some kind of psychological effect on the cats so they don't try too hard to find a hole in the fence and bolt. Anyway, Will gets a kick out of chasing the cats in the backyard and grabbing their leashes. The cats do not like it.
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