Friday afternoon the weather was gorgeous... enough so that we didn't need jackets. I was babysitting for a girl that goes to our church and we decided to take Mady outside to play in the leaves. Mady had never really played in the leaves before then - a few times she would walk through piles of them and kick them but that's about it.
Daddy came outside and started raking the leaves into a pile for the girls to play in. Before I knew it Mady was running across the driveway straight for the pile of leaves. She jumped right in. It was so cute to watch her get so excited. She would run and jump into the pile and then get up and do it all over again. She eventually laid down in the leaves while "Leena" and Daddy piled more leaves on top of her. She was covered up to her chin in leaves and smiling the whole time. Madalyn kept saying "more leaves, more leaves."
Watching her play was definitely the highlight of my day. It was such a joy to watch my daughter have fun and enjoy nature. It did however take a little while to get her out of the leaves to go inside for a nap. And it took a little longer to pick the pieces of leaves out of every crevice imaginable!
Just to show you how much she loves the leaves... Saturday we were getting ready to go down to my moms house and we were loading up the car. Mark said he looked over and Mady was laying in that same pile of leaves... nice clothes, nice coat and all. Silly girl!
She couldn't get the leaves out of her diaper!
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