Bike Pictures and a weekly recap

 

Lately the kids have been interested in nothing but riding their bikes.  We have a path that we regularly take through our neighborhood that has the smallest hills and thus the greatest chance for success.  Over the course of the summer the kids have improved so much! 

 

 

At the beginning of the summer she could barely get up some of the bigger hills and we would have to push her the entire way.  Now she is stronger and has improved so that she does not need any help the entire way.  Way to go Roo!

 

Tomorrow the plan is to take a long bike ride to build their stamina.  They are in training for Cade's Cove 2014!

 

Dawson goes back and forth between running after his brother and sister, riding his train, or riding the red tricycle. 

 

There's our crazy Roo face!

 

Now that summer is over we are hitting the reading hard with this little one.  She is picking it up so easily, we have another fantastic reader on our hands!

 

This handsome face.  Love it.

 

We've been working with him on riding without training wheels.  It usually goes something like this:  he has two or three successful rides until he crashes.  Then he cries about how much he hates his bike and never wants to ride it again.  He is on Carter's learning curve which means one day he will just take off perfectly on his bike and never look back.

 

I couldn't get a picture of him that wasn't blurry!

 

So I must document this funny little quirk of our boy that may be embarrassing to him in the future.  After seeing his father and big brother use the restroom, he has decided he wants to use the toilet just like them.  The problem is, he isn't tall enough to go standing up.  Instead he climbs up onto the toilet and sits backward with his head facing the tank.  We call it riding the horse, and sitting forward is riding the train.  Crazy kid.

 

We've had such a busy week again, but I'm glad to be back in routine and consistency again.  Ava is loving her new gymnastics class, I'll definitely bring my camera to take pictures next week.  Carter is really getting into kindermusik, he told us this week he wants to do it for a long time, maybe a budding musician?  Dawson is the biggest helper (at least he really wants to be!)  He loves to throw things in the trash, help with jobs like unloading the car, push the code into the garage keypad and open/close the garage door.  He also loves to help in the kitchen.  Love our sweet guy!