Baby First Time in Leaves

Real Dad Blog Version:  Sharing memories with your children is an awesome thing.  Watching your kids play in the pile of  fall leaves brings a lot of joy to this dad.

One of things I remember as a kid is raking leaves and playing in them. We would stack the leaves up as high as we could, jump in and out of them and try to bury ourselves so no one could see us.  Those were some good old days of playing in the piles of leaves.

Baby Popping out of leaves!

On Sunday, I spent some hours raking leaves into piles.   I was thinking to myself how much fun it would be as a dad to show my son the good times piles of leaves can be.  So, I decided to make a huge pile that my one year old could play in.

Baby Studying Leaves

I had to play the waiting game until my wife got home from the grocery store with our son.  When they got home, I ran up there to tell her that we have to have Rylan play in the leaves.  It would be so much fun.  She was then excited about it to.

Baby Hiding Leaves

We got Rylan dressed to play in the leaves with an old sweatshirt and sweatpants.  When we arrived at the leaves, I set him in there and the leaves were almost to his face.  He looked at me like, dad, what is going on.  He then got a huge smile on his face.  I knew that face was telling me thank you, this is the coolest thing ever.

He played in the leaves for about 20 minutes.  It could have been a lot longer, but we had a birthday party to get to and the Viking game to watch.  Having your child share in the joys you had as a kid is an awesome thing.  Seeing Rylan throw the leaves, crawl through the leaves and just have a good old time in the leaves, made me a very happy dad.

Swimming in leaves to get dad