Leaves

 Summer...

 H laid down and started looking up into the trees with his "binoculars," and then C had to do the same! 

 Across the street there is a little lot that has a plethora of different kinds of trees, so we thought we'd check it out and make some leaf rubbings.  Of course it was necessary to ride bikes to the other side of the road.

 Collecting leaves.  This tree had some long green bean looking seed pods.

 We noticed some dew covered tiny spider webs in the grass and "poison ivious" (poison ivy).

 A fig tree (although H is certain it is a watermelon tree and that the green figs are baby watermelons...).

 The sun was so pretty shining through these feathery leaves.

 Leaf rubbing time! It took a couple tries to get the hang of rubbing the crayons and not coloring with them.

 C did a bit of leaf rubbing and then started making "letters" on his page, he would make a little mark and then ask me whose letter it was.  (we talk a lot about his letter "C" and H's letter, and Tatum's letter, etc.)

 H started to read the book that we used as his desk. 

After we were done, the boys started fanning me with the big leaves, and we made toe print caterpillars on the leaves.   

We left the leaves on the driveway and the next day they were shriveled and crunchy, and the boys had a blast riding over them with their bikes to hear the crunching.