Day six? Is that right? Let’s see, the last day of school was Thursday, and today is Wednesday, soooo…yep. Six days the kids have been home. We’re on day six, with twenty more days to go! During that time, the kids have…

LEARNED TO RIDE THEIR BIKES WITHOUT TRAINING WHEELS! zOMG!

Well, the big kids, anyway. The little girls are giving it their all, though – I have to give them major props. They’ve been tooling around, sitting on their bike seats, pushing along with their feet, trying to get the feel of being on a bike without training wheels. I don’t think they’re quite ready, at 4 1/2.

Pablo and Mallory, though – well, they kicked ASS. I asked Paul to remove Mallory’s training wheels and he was hesitant at first. But within 20 minutes, she was off and pedaling on her own. Within an hour, she was RACING around the cul-de-sac, standing up to pedal.

After Mallory showed off for Pablo, he approached Daddy on his own, telling him, “No training wheels Pablo’s bike now!” I thought he’d be a little afraid, but he wasn’t. I literally ran behind him for about two seconds to give him a good push-off, and he was pedaling on his own. Like he emerged from the womb knowing how to ride a bike, and I never realized it until now. He still has trouble getting going up the hills, but for the most part, he’s doing fabulous. I’m so proud of both of them!

Besides the bike riding thing, we had another milestone reached in our house on Sunday. Lexi FINALLY learned how to pump on the swings! Nikki has known for over a year now, so I was starting to get a little antsy, y’know? But she figured it out! I think the problem has been not having swings right in our backyard. At the old house, Nikki learned to swing like a champ, and then the weather got cold, and then we MOVED! To a house with NO swingset, next to a park without swings. Poor Lexi! What was she supposed to do, learn at the school playground where we spend probably 2 hours every week? In front of everyone?? I guess not. Now that we have the play structure in place, everyone’s a MASTER swinger.

And the weather has been nice enough for the kids to really enjoy fall – except for today, with the 50 mph winds whipping everything around. Daddy put a pirate flag up on the playground, and picked up a bunch of pirate hats, hooks, gold coins, and clip-on earrings at the party store, so we’re in full-on PIRATE MODE around here. Arrrr!

I’ve been working on painting the kids’ bathroom, slowly but surely. I know there are folks out there who really love crisp, pristine white walls – but I am not among those folks. I like COLOR, dammit. So that’s coming right along. Hopefully I’ll finish most of it today. The walls are going to be a nice blue-green color, and I’m adding some fun stuff for the kids, too. I’ll post pictures soon.

P.S. Can you even READ this? I know most of you are just reading my RSS feed, so it doesn’t matter anyway, but I’m really sick of this font size. I’m in the process of putting together a new blog template, so bear with me.

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