Illinios in the Fall

This past week has been almost uneventful. Almost-

Brennan was out of school on Friday, which was nice because we had an Indian Family Report to do together. It took us a few hours, but we completed this really cool looking, touch and feel Anasazi Indian book. It was probably more than was needed, but I've been lacking a creative outlet for a while now and well, I was in my element. (It was a scrapbook of Indian information!!!) I wish I could have posted a pic, but it was due today.

Saturday was spent raking leaves. It was very reminiscent of my childhood and the never ending piles of leaves from the Poplar trees. How ironic we now live in Poplar Grove!! Anyway- I raked while Brennan pretended to rake and then jumped in the piles I made. What began as a quick yard clean up turned into an all day event, eventually ending with the paying of the neighborhood teenagers to bag the leaves. We bagged 40 big black garbage bags and put them in the garage until next Saturday when the compost pile is open to dump them in. And I've learned a few things about bagging and storing leaves: they are continuing to decompose inside the garage. It smells like a COMPOST PILE in our garage!!! It got to be so bad that last night we left the garage door open for a few hours to air it out. We figured if anyone wanted to take anything and made it through the smell, they deserved it!

Just an FYI about Nolan- we started him on solids yesterday. He loves bananas and rice cereal but will not eat pears. I tried to feed him pears this morning and all I got was a gagging child and pears all over the high chair! He would not even open his mouth for them. It was actually quite comical :)