Blogger's remorse...

Ok, so I'm feeling sightly guilty that my last post was so, um... negative. I'm a fairly upbeat person and it takes a decent amount to get me down, so even I was surprised at how down I got by the kids' behavior at church. I'm happy to report that the kids were back to being their normal, fun selves and mommy was in turn in much better spirits towards the end of the day on Sunday. Phew!

We've added a new post-work activity to the daily routine. If it's not swelteringly hot (which seems to be rare!), we've taken to after work bike rides, now that the bikes arrived in our partial shipment from the moving truck. Yes, that means our things have arrived here in Arkansas - and are now in a storage area somewhere, eek! In any event, Maddie had outgrown her bike and we all headed to Walmart on Sunday afternoon to get a larger one that we had promised before leaving Massachusetts. She's getting pretty decent without training wheels and can go about 30 feet, but she doesn't often choose to try without her training wheels. So for now, she's graduated up to a 16" bike with training wheels. She picked a very girly Hello Kitty model, complete with handlebar streamers. She loves it and has had no problem switching to the larger size and is now trying continually to beat her own fastest record and go as fast as she possibly can. Speed demon!

Sienna is still on her Dora bike, and she too has gotten extremely fast on that little bike! Now that we have two of them able to ride for a decent distance, up hills, etc., we can actually go on a family bike ride and feel like we're getting somewhere - which is really fun!

Lyla enjoys riding in the bike seat on the back of Brad's bike, and I have to say...I'm relieved not to have to pull that big ol' bike trailer around all the time with two heavy kids inside. While we still like to use the trailer now and again, I much prefer the full family activity with everyone on bikes. In the neighborhood we're in, we can actually ride on the sidewalks up to the community pool, etc. so we'll probably try that at some point, though the life jackets and noodles add a bit of cargo that might take some configuring!