Raking leaves, new bathtubs, and giddy up!!!!

The leaves are falling, falling down! Nothing out of the ordinary for the front yard, with the huge magnolia tree that lives there, which sheds its leaves ALL year round. But in the back, that huge tree is losing leaves and shedding its stinky balls. I have no idea what kind of tree it is, what I do know, is that it drops these balls that if they get smashed in the slightest, let out a repugnant odor. Lulu LOVES to roll around in the stink... of course. Anyway, not much we can do but rake, rake, rake it all up! (I guess I should say not much DANNY can do..haha!)



I'm pretty sure Chase didn't find this as amusing as mommy and daddy thought it was cute...



Umm yep... this face confirms the assumption of how amusing Chase thought this was...



After putting all the leaves in piles, Chase quickly bagged them up so mommy and daddy couldn't pose him in the pile again...



After all that work, we had to clean Chase up! He has pretty much out grown the bathtub for the sink (and I so dearly miss it already and it has only been a week!). Now he is taking baths in the big bathtub, in a little ducky bathtub. I think he was a little freaked out at first, he was smiling, but he didn't want to get his feet wet...



Then he got use to it, put his feet in, and really started playing and splashing around...



And now for the toy story... Chase has started this new thing where he jumps constantly. You really can't hold him in front of you and look at him or stand him on anything without him trying to jump. Originally, Danny and I had bought him this bouncy horse thing at the Just Between Friends sale for a Christmas present. But after he started this jump thing, we knew he was going to have to get the horse early... and he goes NUTS in this thing, it's hilarious when he really gets going!!