Wednesday, March 10, 2010

There's no stopping them now!

With the weather turning a bit nicer, and the daylight hours lasting longer, pretty much all my kids want to do these days is ride their bikes! We don't have a very large driveway for all of them to ride at once (especially with dare-devil, wildman, adrenaline junky Connor in the mix), so we've been heading to one of the local church parking lots instead. Huge lot, flat... Plenty of room for three kids to put their feet to the pedals and feel the wind in their hair.

Emily

Jared

Connor

I took them Friday after school and all three of them hollered when it was time to head home for dinner. I got a 7am wake-up call Saturday morning asking if we could go again, and Emily nearly turned out a sleep-over invitation Saturday night because she was worried she'd miss out on a bike ride Sunday morning. LOL We did ride Friday, Saturday, AND Sunday, and I'm pretty sure they'd have done Monday and Tuesday as well, if there wasn't the minor issues of SCHOOL and ACTIVITIES and BEDTIME in the way. Ha! It's a bit of a pain to load up the bikes and make the drive, but when the end result is my kids enjoying the fresh air, getting good exercise, and GETTING ALONG, it's worth it! I suspect we'll be spending quite a bit of time there in the future!

2 comments:

Cindy Lou Who said...

sounds like fun! Take some orange cones out and make bike courses - changes the fun up for them!

Betsy Hart said...

How fun. :) I love when spring starts and the rain begins to let up a little.