Well, the crocuses are blooming and the kids are riding bikes. I guess it's spring and thank goodness. We realized a few weeks ago that Eden has grown out of her dear Rosie bike. It was a bit of a sad realization but I promptly found her a bright purple replacement on Craigslist for $50. It was one year old and a very high end mountain bike that we could never have afforded retail. Jody picked it up and left it at our friend Luke's house while we looked for Kait's. We heard about the new thing for teaching kids to ride a bike. It's called a run bike and it's really short with no pedals so they learn to balance first, then you move them to a bike with pedals. I looked for one of those on Craigslist for Kait for a couple of weeks and then gave up and put up a wanted ad. A lady emailed me within 24 hours and sold us one for $50 again. Well, Jody was teasing Eden one night and asked her what color she wanted her new bike to be and she immediately said "PURPLE". Well, it's not exactly surprising with a little girl but it was kinda nice since that's exactly what we had found! Kaitlyn also requested a girly color but Jody explained to her that we really needed to find a neutral color and put girly stickers on it so we can hand it down to Nick and change the stickers. She thought about it for a few days and then came to him and told him that she was fine with a white bike. So, we had both bikes and Jody spent a late night getting them all clean and shiny. Yesterday he came home for lunch to suprise the girls. We were in the kitchen and heard the garage door opening so they knew he was here and everyone went running out through the garage door. Eden was in the lead and ran right past her shiny purple bike into her Daddy's arms. Kait was in the rear and paused at the top of the stairs paralyzed by the sight of the little run bike. She had a hesitant smile on her face so Eden turned and saw the run bike which was leaning against her purple bike and said "oh, cool strider for Kait!" Everyone just stood staring at Eden and then she finally noticed her purple bike. She was truely shocked. Later I asked her if her bike had a bell with it or if Daddy had moved the old one from Rosie. She promptly replied that he had moved it, she checked! I laughed and told her she had a pretty amazing Daddy. Eden's enormous eyes shined and she said "I have the best Daddy in the whole world. He's not that strong though..." I said "what?" She replied "well that's what he says all the time, that he isn't very strong." So, thank goodness he's the greatest dad and the most modest. ;-) Kaitlyn is slowly warming to her run bike but finds it a little intimidating. We're letting her take her time. Eden is zooming at high speeds on "Iris". Thank goodness she's religious about her elbow pads, knee pads and helment.
Nick is still talking Nickese. We understand "car, ball, bar, berries, mama, light and more. The rest is pure gibberish and it drives Jody nuts. He keeps asking me when Nick is going to start talking, as if I have any idea.
The girls are tumbling their hearts out in gymnastics. It's so fun to watch them. They point their little toes and hold themselves in the most fantastic posture as they practice the beam, trampoline, bars and floor exercizes. Eden can do a handstand! Kaitlyn can do hops on the beam! It's neat.
We're preparing for a big trip to Arkansas over spring break. We'll be in Mountain Home for three days and Cabot for three days. Hopefully we'll have a big family barbque while we're down there and see as much family as possible.
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