It's fall!

Everyone in TOMH&R loves every season, each for its own reasons and all the fun things they can find to do all year round.  They especially love the autumn when the leaves are falling.  Lola thinks it's very pretty, all the lovely leaves and colors.  She also loves to play in the leaves, just like all the others. (we seem to be rhyming a bit today)

On such a bright sunny day they decided to go out for a walk through the neighborhood to check out all the leaves.  Pierre had come to visit from the lab so he was really looking forward to it.  The leaves were EVERYWHERE!  Nobody had ever seen so MANY leaves at one time!  People had raked their yards into huge piles of leaves.  At first everyone just walked around on the sidewalks oohing and aahing at all the bright colors.  Then they couldn't resist it any longer.  Ted and Ed took off like 2 spinning tornadoes and headed for the biggest leaf pile they saw.  WHOOOSH!  There were leaves flying around in all directions ... falling down on the gang like rain!  Al watched from a tree, enjoying the swirl of colors from above.

All the hedgehogs, Raoul, Freddy, Guerrero, and UpYours were having a great time rolling around and throwing leaves all around.  Suddenly Emilio shouted "Everybody stop!  Where's Gustave?"  They all stopped throwing the leaves and stood very still as things settled down.  They looked all around but didn't see him anywhere.  Then Alphonso spotted a leaf moving along very slowly.  He lifted it up and there was Gustave underneath it.  They put Gustave into Ned's backpack so he wouldn't get lost again, then they carried on with the playing.  Gustave appreciated that a lot.

When they were all tired out from playing in the leaves and had made a huge mess of every yard in the neighborhood, they all headed back home.  They were very hungry!  Luckily the night before they had made a bunch of pb & j sandwiches in preparation for the next day.  They had made a HUGE mess of it but managed to get a lot of sandwiches made so everyone would have some.  Of course there was one without jelly for Alphonso, and Gustave still had plenty of licorice leftover from Halloween.  They all feasted on the sandwiches with milk to wash it down, then after Lola was done burping they laid down and took a nap, all tuckered out and full.