Autumn has arrived with full force in Raleigh, so it's only fitting that I dedicate this weekly developmental update to Gavin's love of leaves. Today we had a brief fall photo shoot. In order to keep Gavin in one location, I collected leaves on our walk this morning for him to play with. He would have stayed out there all afternoon playing with those leaves if we'd let him! Even after we went back inside to warm up (it was 56 degrees during the shoot - brrr!), he crawled around holding on to one of his leaves.

Mommy, these hay bale and pumpkin props are silly. I'm going to play with these leaves so I can pretend they're not there.

See, now aren't the pictures better without silly props?

Practicing my Presidential "gazing thoughtfully into the distance" face.

Daddy, you so funny!

Yellow leaf ... orange leaf ... yellow leaf ... orange leaf ...

Yellow leaf!