I am learning to love the freedom of riding a bike! It is my first one, so it is actually a 'balance' bike (Strider), so it doesn't have pedals. This month things finally clicked for me (I have actually been pushing it around the living room for a year or so) - anyway, now I get it! It was one fine summer evening in North Boulder park where I sat down on the seat and cruised. Now I can't get enough of it. I like to ride it to school pretty much every day. Though coming home I sometimes get tired after picking up Thambi (and Amma carries it the rest of the way home). If I am having a rough morning, Amma just mentions the bike, and I head to the door, grab my helmet, put on my shoes, and sometimes even grab my backpack. Every day I get a little faster, or figure out how to go over bigger bumps in the sidewalk, or figure out how to cruise and go around a corner. It is just awesome. And I started to figure out how to use pedals on my tricycle too! Some more time perfecting these two skills and eventually I can combine them.
At the beginning of the month we all went down to Colorado Springs for a fun triumvirate: hiking around the stunning Garden of the Gods (and getting to crawl through a crack in the rocks), exploring the literally cool (55F) Cave of the Winds with its small chambers and neat stalactites, and the highlight: taking the cog railway waaay up to the tippy top of Pike's Peak (my first 14er!). Rachel and family joined us, and we all had a great time.
As I previewed last month, Nastja (from Germany) visited again for a week after her tour of the west coast. The only downside was that I wanted to get on an airplane when we picked her up and dropped her off at the airport. We had fun around Boulder, checked out ducks in the ponds, enjoyed Meadow Music at Chautauqua, ate yummy food that Ayyamma made, ventured up into the mountains around Brainard Lake, and finished off the week with a trip to the zoo with Grandpa.
A few other highlights from this month include climbing trees at Don and Barbara's house (not too high just yet, but I love it), climbing the ladder at home with my saw to 'trim' the tree, commenting on all of the cranes! and trucks! that are helping build buildings and roads around Boulder, celebrating Grandpa's birthday with Amma and Thambi and Grandma, and going hiking up in the mountains.
Thank you God for cog railways, caves, trees, saws, bicycles, and sunglasses.
At the beginning of the month we all went down to Colorado Springs for a fun triumvirate: hiking around the stunning Garden of the Gods (and getting to crawl through a crack in the rocks), exploring the literally cool (55F) Cave of the Winds with its small chambers and neat stalactites, and the highlight: taking the cog railway waaay up to the tippy top of Pike's Peak (my first 14er!). Rachel and family joined us, and we all had a great time.
As I previewed last month, Nastja (from Germany) visited again for a week after her tour of the west coast. The only downside was that I wanted to get on an airplane when we picked her up and dropped her off at the airport. We had fun around Boulder, checked out ducks in the ponds, enjoyed Meadow Music at Chautauqua, ate yummy food that Ayyamma made, ventured up into the mountains around Brainard Lake, and finished off the week with a trip to the zoo with Grandpa.
A few other highlights from this month include climbing trees at Don and Barbara's house (not too high just yet, but I love it), climbing the ladder at home with my saw to 'trim' the tree, commenting on all of the cranes! and trucks! that are helping build buildings and roads around Boulder, celebrating Grandpa's birthday with Amma and Thambi and Grandma, and going hiking up in the mountains.
Thank you God for cog railways, caves, trees, saws, bicycles, and sunglasses.
