Someone...

...decided she WAS taking a bath

...drew me a sweet picture

...chose a bad day to visit the zoo. (At least the peacock kept us company while it rained)

First real bike

My mom always says that we try and give our children things that we didn't have. When it comes to bikes this is totally true for me. I never owned my own bike. Being fourth I always used the hand-me-down bikes of others. When I got older my parents said they would pay half of a bike I wanted to buy, but by then clothes were much more important.

So at the beginning of May I forked out some of my hard earned cash to buy Owen a Stinger 16. He loved riding it around with the training wheels on. Then one Sunday Miriam came over with her new car and we all went for a ride. Two feet down the driveway the car hit something. When I asked "Who left their bike behind the car?" Owen excitedly said "ME!" Luckily the only damage was to one of the training wheels... so they came off! I tried to teach Owen to ride without them but failed miserably. Jeff took over and had him riding within 10 minutes. After another hour he could start and stop himself too. Way to go Owen!!!! We're so proud of our first biker!