boys chillaxin'

And eating cake on a sunny day.

Family Photos

We don't often get all four of us into a photo at the same time. But Kari has been wanting one of all of us for a while. So much that she started threatening me with a Sears studio session, which is an affront to me on so many levels. So when Shawn asked to borrow some of my backdrop gear, I set it up to show her how it worked and then swindled her into taking a few shots of our whole crew while she was there.

Pedal pushers

The boys went on a bike ride together yesterday at "Tom's Park" (the little park near the house we rented last year from Tom). Adler still needs help getting started, is a little wobbly, and LT lapped him about twenty times but he's still learning and seems to have crossed the threshold of moving on to his pedal bike.

Alder met a little girl at the park who proudly told him that she had a pink bike. To which he replied that he his blue was blue. As I was listening to them I was noting to myself how it was interesting that they seemed to be confirming gender stereotypes all on their own. But then they threw a curve ball on that as Adler announced to the little girl that pink was his favorite color. She smiled at that and promptly told him that blue was her favorite color. A few minutes later they tried to ride together and Alder crashed into her. But she didn't seem too bothered by it. Kids...

Two wheels and two pedals for #2

Adler and I went to the park today. LT, for reasons I don't really understand, decided that he wanted to go to the grocery store with his mom rather than go to the park with us. Maybe LT knew his little brother needed a little time out of the shadow of his big brother.

As we were getting ready to leave, Adler asked if he could ride his pedal bike to the park. The bike he's never successfully ridden before. I try to be supportive so I didn't sigh out loud or otherwise show my disappointment and annoyance at what I was sure would end up being me carrying his pedal bike to and from the park. And I did carry the bike a little bit. But not the whole way - only up the big hill on the way there. He rode the rest of the way himself. He still needs some help getting started and he really needs to learn how to use the breaks. But today was a big step.