When there are leaves you gotta play!

I have been bugging mummy for the last week to let me go out and rake up the leaves to play in but it has been way too wet till yesterday. So with it being dry yesterday it was the perfect opportunity to have a playdate with the leaves.
Mummy and I raked them into a big pile and I buried myself in them and then my Auntie Kim and Uncle Frank arrived and guess what? They couldn't find me till I jumped out and scared them!
Hopefully we will get more leaves and more nice weather and I can make an even bigger pile to play in. I like Fall.

Willow Farms and Pumpkins

So we discovered a new place to visit thanks to our friends and this place is really fun. It has everything a kid would like (well except it's missing a sand box). It has slides, swings, forts, animals to see and feed and lots and lots of pumpkins to run thru and pick out the best ones.
Last week we took our second trip to Willow farms and met up with quite a few of our friends. As usual it was a challenge to get all of the mummys to cooperate and face the camera to get the best picture. When it was our turn we showed them how the pros do it and ta da..... here we are! (minus Charlie who was being camera shy)

I managed to find the perfect pumpkin and mummy has told me it may be a challenge to carve. We picked out one for Grandma & Grampa too so maybe I'll go and carve theirs for them too.

Before the rain we had sun & we had Whiterock

Sofore Fall officially kicked in to the weather that we all know we had a few nice days of sunshine and one last trip to the beach. Except this was no lake beach, it was the ocean or more precisely, Whiterock.
We met up with our friends Rebecca, Olivia, Damien and Avery and we brought along our friend Kelly. We spent the morning looking along the sand (okay not so much sand but seaweed) for some whole shells. There wasn't much to look at cause the tide was still in, but we did see lots of crab shells.
We didn't do any swimming except for Kelly who was brave enough to venture into the stinky, salty water in hopes of finding a special shell.

After we had a little picnic we took a stroll or more like a run along the pier. But of course just running isn't all that fun so we added some spying! I told mummy that there were fish under the pier and she looked and said oh yes there certainly were. So Olivia, Damien and I had to look every few feet to see if there were more fish. You know what? There were tons of little fishies swimming by the posts trying to stay away from the bigger fish and the seagulls. Well then mummy really looked and said wow there actually were fish and I wasn't just seeing reflections in the water. Silly mummy!

Well as you all know running can be exhausting but we managed to run all the way back down the pier and then we got to have a gelato across the street as our reward for exhausting our mums.

It was a really nice day but I have a warning for all my buddies. When you tell your Nonna that the shells that you brought home are clean and can be put in your fish tank for Robbie the fish to play with, make sure she hears your mum say that they are just rinsed and not actually clean. RIP Robbie!