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Tales From a Triplet House
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans...
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My Mother's Daughter Literacy in Bloom! Soccer Mom? Sam I Am I’m a Costco junkie... My Head is Spinning... I need a 'do-over'... Bicycling to school...another milestone. My summer book report. February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 'Be careful how you interpret the world: it is like that.' - Erich Keller 'I do not pretend to understand the universe. It's a great deal bigger than I am.' - Tom Stoppard 'Chaos often breeds life, where order breeds habit.' - Henry Adams 'When you can laugh at yourself, there is enlightenment.' - Shunryu Suzuki 'My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither; but to just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.' - Thornton Wilder This one was on my quote-a-day calendar the day after I found out I was carrying triplets. 
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I have two bike riders!
Woohoo! My son ditched the training wheels for good tonight!
I knew he was close so I suggested a trip to the park after dinner. We headed up there with all three kids and their bikes - two without training wheels. Daughter1 learned a couple weekends ago. She just came up to me and asked to remove her trainers. We went to the park the next Saturday and worked on it for an afternoon. She got the riding-by-herself part down but then we were too tired to work on starting and stopping alone. Sunday we worked on it on the sidewalk in front of the house. About 30 minutes and that was that, one bike rider down, two to go... That Sunday afternoon, my son whispered in my ear that he wanted his trainers off too. So I happily complied and we spent some time running up and down the block - me all hunched over and hovering. It's been a couple weeks since then and he was finally ready to try again. He was out in the backyard this afternoon trying to ride by himself on the short walkway between the house and the fence. Hence my after dinner suggestion. Well, let me tell you, teaching a child to ride a bike really brings to the surface what the progression of motherhood is all about; helping him get started - running behind the bike holding onto the back of his seat - letting go and running to stay beside him in case he needed to be caught - then finally standing back and letting him zoom off across the pavement legs peddling furiously as he goes faster and faster. "Remember to use your brakes!" I yell with my heart in my throat just as, grinning from ear to ear, he skids to a stop laying tread like the dare devil boy I see him growing into. Wow. Motherhood. What a rush! 1 comments from 1 users
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mom2twinboys
on Jun 2, 2008 at 05:42 AM
How exciting! Sounds like soon your entire family will be able to go on a bike ride together all on your own bikes! Have fun! Maybe you can join us for a bike ride sometime!
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