But I HAD to do it!

Well, here in sunny California, the leaves on our maple don't drop until sometime in December, and with the hectic schedule of the holidays any cleanup of the leaves gets postponed until after Christmas is over.

This year Iain asked if he could help rake up all the leaves while I was taking down the Christmas lights from the house. In the time it took for me to remove and rebox 8 strands of lights, he'd done an awesome job of raking all the leaves into a pile, and I congratulated him on his hard work. I even offered to get the camera so I could take a picture of him next to the pile, so we could show everyone what a hard worker he was.

Well, as soon as I got the first couple of pictures of him with the pile, he decided he had to perform a right of passage -- jumping into a pile of leaves. He said he just HAD to do it. Needless to say, I said 'sure',and he had a good time with it, but after it was over we were digging leaves out of every pocket, every sock, etc., and he wasn't too thrilled with that part.