On a magnificent walk today with Elliot, which I will write about later, he saw the leaves of a tree next to the playground had dropped and turned gold.

“Look, Daddy! The leaves fell! It’s Fall! And the leaves turned color!”

He was so excited. We looked at another tree that had done the same. But most trees haven’t dropped their leaves yet, so this was definitely novel. Of course , he’s seen this before in his life, but not many times. And I’d say only the last Fall, in 2021 when he was 3 (now he is 4), was he aware enough to comment on it.

Hitting nails into a log with a hammer