Did you ever wish...?

that you could just shake the leaves off the trees??

(Sorry, but I couldn't figure out how to rotate the picture!)

That is exactly what we convinced Abbie she could do.  I showed her how to "shake" the tree and make leaves fall down.  Thankfully the wind cooperated a bit with this as well.  So as we were playing in the leaves in the front yard (they don't have leaves at their house, so they came to play in ours), she would decide that she needed more leaves.  Abbie would walk up to the tree and "shake" it as hard as she could.  Se had her "working really hard" look on her face (I wish you could see it in the picture it is a cute look)  And then the wind would blow a little and she would watch all the leaves fall in the yard and in the street.  She thought this was the coolest thing.  So she would play in the leaves for a while and then go back and "shake" the tree.

If only raking in the fall was that easy.