Raking is kind of fun :) I've let Casey do it most years & I just do the clean up in the spring, but this year he was slacking so I got on it...don't laugh, but my triceps are sore from it. I'm pathetic - I'm aware. I sat Caleb on the biggest pile & he thought it was kind of fun. I'm attaching a bunch of photos so that you can see what we go through EVERY TIME that the camera is taken out. It's a process!! How did people ever get good pictures without the option to delete??

I think he has figured out that the flash hurts his eyes.

He shuts his eyes & turns his head for the first pic ever time! For some reason - he has to make a weird face.
Still super cute - but COME ON!

Finally - eye contact. BUT - bad lighting!! (yes, the shadow is my freaking body...but he was looking so I took the pic)

Casey coming to distract him - just as I'm getting eye contact...grrrrCrawled away from the leaf pile...just chillin.

Crawls to me because he wants to play with the camera.

This boy skips whining & goes straight to the scream.

I managed to get a shot of him freaking.