Two Wheel Ridin'

The training wheels on Belle's bike have been broken for some time. We just took them off and told her that she'd just have to learn to ride without them. She's been apprehensive, so she's only been riding the scooter and Ethan's balance bike. We'd try to have her ride down the driveway without dragging her feet sometimes to work on balance, but not really pushing it.

Well today Nic got the bike out and told her that she was going to learn to ride. Of course she didn't want to do it, but we finally coaxed her. It really didn't take her long to get it. And truthfully she was almost riding last fall. We didn't want to push it since the season for riding bikes was almost over. The only thing she needs to learn now is how to get started. Then she'll truly be off and running.

She's pretty proud of herself. When she was done and putting her bike away she said "I'm amazed!". We are too honey! Good job!!

 

Kite Flying

We've had some unusually warm days this March. And I'm not complaining. We've also had some very windy days as well. Belle has been begging for the longest time to fly a kite. She'll say "remember when I was 3 and I flew a kite with Papaw?". Here is evidence. Well on a particularly windy day I finally gave in. We headed to Walmart and picked up some cheapy $1 kites. Belle got a Barbie kite and Ethan got Spiderman.

They really are best friends!

We waited til Nic got home and headed to the cross country track over by the high school. We wondered if it would be too windy. But we were able to get the kites up and Ethan did a pretty good job of flying his kite. Much better than Belle in fact. Although come to find out, Belle's kite may have not been working all that good to begin with.

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Catching up

Here I am again trying to catch the blog up. A couple weeks ago we celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday with a few activities and reading all the Dr. Seuss books we own. Some of which I wasn't good at documenting. Nic brought home some huge paper from work and we outlined the kids bodies and drew a "Cat in the Hat" Hat on their head for them to paint. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of the final product.

Later in the week Belle asked for a craft like she often does, and I'm often left scrambling for something. This time I had a fairly good idea. We had never made a collage. So I got a bunch of magazines and we started cutting. First I decided we were going to do a "One Fish" "Two Fish" "Red Fish" "Blue Fish" collage, like the Dr. Seuss book. So we started cutting one of something, two of something, things that were red and things that were blue. We then glued them onto cardstock and I later cut them into fish. Ethan cut maybe too things before he gave up and played computer games.

I apologize for the sideways photos, but I have limited time to figure out how to turn them in Blogger.

 

Belle with her favorite fish

Oh and to cap off our Dr Suess week, we made green eggs and ham (and cheese). I should've taken a picture. The eggs looked absolutely disgusting, but the kids ate it.