{"id":3490,"date":"2012-10-19T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2016-09-27T11:20:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T16:20:06","slug":"yay-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3490","title":{"rendered":"Yay Fall!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8463\/8087671943_c8356f00cb_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0307\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can I just join the stereotype today? You know, the one where everyone goes on and on about how great fall is. You know why they do that? Because it is.<\/p>\n<p>The lighting? Magical. In the afternoons before dinner, I&#8217;ve been taking the boys to the playground and I catch myself staring for way too long at the changing light in the trees while Emil runs off to climb up onto some dangerously high structure. The colors, the lengthening shadows, I can&#8217;t get enough.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8327\/8087670211_9c34f81be5_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0273\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8476\/8087671027_1b145403a6_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0299\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The boys clearly feel the same way. Last weekend I caught them amidst the bright orange mums (by the way&#8230; I swear I planted bright\u00a0<em>red\u00a0<\/em>mums two years ago, but they come back a different color every fall&#8211; is this normal?!) first playing with and chasing a large praying mantis, then gathering petals into cupped hands and throwing them up while yelling, &#8220;<em>Yippeeeeeeee!!!&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8193\/8087671548_2262da3d9b_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0306\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8470\/8087672295_44f722ea8c_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0310\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Oliver. The Hair.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8045\/8087672571_737cbb35c8_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0320\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8326\/8087673799_a65a736c00_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8323\/8087674223_ae306748b5_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0344\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This weekend is going to be another good one, I think. Andrew and I are going to a little music venue with our\u00a0<em>cool friends\u00a0<\/em>on Saturday night which also means the boys get to see Elisa!<\/p>\n<p>Hope you have a fantastic fall weekend!<\/p>\n<p><em>P.s.- I can&#8217;t believe how the temperature has dropped around here since I took these pictures! No more tank tops and bare feet until next year&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can I just join the stereotype today? You know, the one where everyone goes on and on about how great fall is. You know why they do that? Because it is. The lighting? Magical. In the afternoons before dinner, I&#8217;ve been taking the boys to the playground and I catch myself staring for way too &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3490\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yay Fall!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,187],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-3490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden","category-motherhood","tag-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12378,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions\/12378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}