Day 1 of Grade 1 for Mateo

The before and after pictures say it all ...


08:00 am

3:30 pm

Madman Mikah

I couldn't stand it any longer. Mateo was racing around on his 2 wheeler and Momma threw out my quad shoes because they had holes in the toes, so I couldn't ride it anymore. Tricycles are for little guys. The only thing left was to get up on the other 2 wheeler. Yesterday evening I asked Poppa to put the training wheels on the red bike and he did.

Ten minutes later I was racing down the driveway with the wind in my hair! Yeeeeehaaaa! I did it! I can ride a big bike. We peddled around for about an hour with Poppa running beside me to make sure I could stop. It was fun! Now we're going to fix it up for me so it looks nice .

"Get your motor runnin'. Head out on the highway. Lookin' for adventure..."

Born to be wild

I finally did it! I grabbed my bike, jumped up on the seat, and rode off into the sunset. Well, around the backyard really. All without any help or suggestion from Momma or Poppa. I guess it did help that my friend Justyn was here. I couldn't let him see that I hadn't yet ridden my cool bike.

Poppa was right. I did know how to do it. I just had to actually go and DO IT! What a great feeling. I love it!

(and he hasn't stopped yet either!)

The zoo in the woods

Wow! We just came back from seeing some wild animals in a big park where they can walk around free with no cages. Just the wolves and bears were behind some fences but all the others like the deer and buffalo came right up and stuck their heads in our truck! Well, not the buffalo. They just looked at us and walked by real slow like some tough guys. But the deer came right up and we could give them carrots right in their mouthes. Way cool!

Check out some of our pictures ...

1 year since 1st posting

Wow, a whole year has gone by already since we started this blog! Did we post everything? No, many more things happened to us in addition to what is written here. Poppa tried his best to get it all in but sometimes there just wasn't enough time. What's nice is we can always add things here in retrospect.

Soon Mateo will be able to fully read & write and hopefully he will start contributing himself here too.

As for today, we are at Dominic's house to play. Gee, we haven't seen him and Charlotte since this past weekend!

Road trip - The ocean again!

We just came back last night from a couple of days camping at the ocean in Maine. It was HOT! Our friends were there with us and we camped and played together. More later ...