Bikes and Books

The weather has been pretty decent here lately, so we've been trying to get outside at least a little bit each day.  Jackson loves to ride his bike and kick the soccer ball, and Emmett is happy to push his lawnmower and walk through the flower beds and up and down the curb.  We did get him a balance bike for Christmas that he's getting a little better at riding.  Hopefully by spring he'll be zooming around on that behind Jackson.

We've also been doing lots of reading inside.  The boys LOOOOVE being read to.  Their favorite books right now are all of their Thomas ones.  Jackson also loves this book that I had from when I was little called "David's First Bicycle" and a book about a tractor named Otis.  J actually has a bunch of books that he loves - he's much more open to other choices, whereas Emmett is pretty stuck on only hearing Thomas stories.  :)

The other night Phil was getting in the shower and we wanted Emmett to get in there with him instead of giving him a bath.  I had taken E's pants off to get him ready and then got sidetracked with something else.  Phil had gone into the bathroom and started the shower and then left the room for a second.  When he walked back in, this is what he saw:

Someone took matters into his own hands!!  He totally cracks us up!  Here's E and Daddy having some snuggy time after E woke up from his nap...

My dad asked for a video of Jackson riding his bike, so here's a nice, long two-minute one just for you, Popeye!!


Untitled from Heather G on Vimeo.

And here's a shorter one of Emmett on his bike...


Untitled from Heather G on Vimeo.