A Fun Outing to the Park...Or Not.

The kids had done their jobs early and wanted to do something fun with mom. I suggested we make a picnic lunch and ride bikes to a different park they hadn't been to before. Everyone was very excited. Scott and Noah were ready well before I was because I was still making lunches. They took off on their bikes to "warm up" for our ride and promised to be right back. Scott made it back and just as we were getting ready to leave Noah comes down the street crying and holding parts of his helmet. Yes, parts. The other parts were held by a very nice man who was carrying Noah's bike and escorting him home. Apparently, Noah wrecked a little ways down the street and this nice man came to his rescue. We cleaned up his arm, gave him some medicine, and he informed us that he didn't want to go anymore. He crawled into bed and Scott started reading him stories. So cute! Scott said he would stay with Noah to make sure he was going to be okay. I suggested we have our picnic inside and watch a movie. They thought that was a great idea. Oh well...the outing was a nice idea. Maybe tomorrow.

Joshua finally graduated to the tandem! He was totally freaked out about it and did NOT want to ride with Mommy, but once we got him on there and started going he thought it was great. He kept saying "I'm really good at this, huh? I'm not a scaredy-cat!" The tandem works great with my new bike. Don't we look cool?

Poor Noah. As you can see, he had just removed two band-aids yesterday from a previous owie. Now he's going to have band-aids back on again.

Picnic and a movie.