8:30 am: Noah's soccer game started. Against a pretty tough team. We don't officially keep score at this age level anyhow, but after the first quarter, I didn't bother in any case. :) Needless to say, Noah wasn't thrilled. But, honestly, Noah's team worked better as a team, so that's something.
10:00 am: We stopped by a local bike store. Yesterday the boys and I rode bikes to the gym...well, Noah and Asher rode and I speed-walked pulling Micah in the wagon. It's about three-quarters of a mile each way...not bad at all, but not the most fun when speed-walking and pulling a wagon and chasing after the other two. So. We got to thinking that if we're going to encourage the boys to ride and all, it might be good if I had a bike also. I haven't had my own bike in, um, decades. I don't think I've ever picked out my own or even had one with hand brakes. We haven't decided to actually make the purchase yet, but it was great fun to try them out at the store. We think we know which one we want...now just convincing ourselves and looking for a good deal. Also want to find a trailer to pull Micah in...
1:30 pm: Asher's soccer game started. I love watching Asher's games. Not that I don't like watching Noah's games, of course, but the boys on Asher's team are just so happy...always smiling and laughing, really not that concerned about competition at all. It's hard to imagine that next year Asher will be playing in the division Noah currently is. (The divisions are by age so Noah ends up being one of the older kids in his division while Asher is one of the youngest (and smallest) in his.) Here's a picture of Asher:
3:00 pm: We let the boys play at the playground a bit after Asher's game. The fun ended when I was rudely stung by a wasp. It was totally unprovoked. I'm pretty sure that the entire insect kingdom is out to get me. Really. ;) I'm fine now, but that was just unnecessary.
3:30 pm: The boys wanted to play outside for a bit when we got home. Micah, when he leaves the house, is almost always accosted by the neighborhood girls. I came outside to find him "pinky promising" our neighbor something...not sure what but it earned him a hug. ;)
Meanwhile, Noah decided he was ready to try riding his bike without training wheels, though he was careful not to commit to anything and made sure we were aware that he fully intended to put the training wheels back on if need be. Which was totally fine with us...personally, I was pretty impressed that he was wanting to try in the first place. Obviously I had to be outside to take pictures on the off chance that he started riding on his own. I ended up with plenty of pictures like this:
In the end, we did put the training wheels back on, but we're so happy that he was willing to try. While the training wheels were off, I couldn't help myself and took a little ride on his bike:
5:00 pm: Very uncharacteristically, we took a family nap. Well, Micah, Nathan and I fell asleep and about an hour later the other two crashed downstairs in the middle of the family room. (Nathan knows this because Noah had continually been waking him up during that hour.)
7:30 pm: Nathan woke me up to tell me dinner was ready. I love him. :)
10:00 pm: After debating for an hour or so, we finally gave up and put everyone to bed. For us, this was earlier than normal by at least an hour. But we were all just exhausted... Yes. I'm still awake. The rest are all in bed now, but I'm going to try to get a bit of work done and still make it to bed before midnight, which will be like crazy early for me. ;) Whew. Long day.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 11:32AM 
