Ouch!

Dane has learned to ride his bike without training wheels! Very exciting. He doesn't need help starting off or turning around or stopping. However.....

 

We'd been practicing in the grass so I wasn't making him where a helmet. On Sunday while Brad was mowing and I was inside with Olive Dane decided to take off on his bike down the gravel driveway with no helmet.  I wasn't watching so I don't know what happened but Brad said he was peddeling very fast and crashed hard! Dane says he hit a big rock. Not sure if I believe that but he did hit a rock with his head and skinned up his knee.  Brad gave him a ride up to the house on the mower and he had blood running down his face. Poor boy.

 

 Lesson learned, Where a helmet at all times.

 

 

Dane & Olive

I was having some technical difficulties with the blog for several days and was unable to upload any pictures. It seems to be working now. So here's what Dane's and Olive have been up too.

 

His new favorite thing to do:

The trike was a gift from our neighbors. It was their son and daughters when they were little.  They have a photo just like this one of their son at the age of 4 pulling their daughter in a Radio Flyer wagon at the same age as Olive. How cool! 

Olive seems to like it for the most part.  I feel sorry for her sometimes. Dane really cooks up some interesting ideas for him and her. For now she has no real say. He'll just grab her up and set her in the wagon and take off.  

 

              Man, I hate when I forget to check the lense for smudges and notice after the fact.

Mmm. Pancakes

  I forgot to post these pics from our Pittsburgh trip. Our last breakfast. Mmmm @ Pamela's Pancakes (wipe drool off chin). So good. These must have been some form of pancake crack cause I've been thinking of them ever since. Now I know why Obama had the chef flown to the whitehouse. Here's the story to that if you'd never heard. 

 

. http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sectionfront/life/pamelas-pancakes-rise-to-the-obamas-occasion-343184/ 

YUMMO!

Zoo Day

Dane's really into silly faces right now. Here's one. 

Playtime.

Lunch time by the river.

Lincon, Dane, Taylor, & Oliver.