Saturday, April 17, 2010

Highlights from our wonderful week!

What a beautiful week we have had!  Gorgeous and fun!  Mike was out of town for most of it (Monday through Thursday) so Paige, Jonah, Jack and I kept ourselves happy and busy.  We spent a LOT of time at the park down the street, enjoyed the library and lots of books on the not so pretty day, went hiking with good friends up Cougar Mountain another day and learned some new skills!
A few highlights-

Paige learned to ride her bike (without training wheels)!  Her sweet friend Grace actually taught her to ride.  She was so patient and knew exactly how to do it.  She got Paige on a grassy hill, steadied her and then told her to pedal.  That pretty much did it!  I mean, there were falls and a lot of practices, but at the end of and hour Paige begged me to let her ride around the 1/3 mile loop around the park.  Of course I let her!  And now she's a regular rider!

woohoo!

She's riding! from Julie Tull on Vimeo.

And then not to be outdone, Jonah learned too!  I taught him with the same techniques as Grace used.  His only problem is braking- or not braking.  He doesn't. Jonah has 2 speeds.  On and off.



Jonah riding a 2 wheeler! from Julie Tull on Vimeo.

And here is Jack eating dried mango after our hike up Cougar.  Look at that dirty face!  It got that way by falling multiple times.  He was AWESOME though.  Just like Jonah and Paige, he never said he was tired or anything.  He just tried to keep up with the big kids!  And sometimes that resulted in a spill.  Usually, he'd just get up, dust off his hands and knees and keep going.  There were a couple of times that Mommy's kiss was needed though!

And this week, Jack has taken an interest in letters!  Here are some more little videos displaying his interest of the week! I happen to think they're pretty cute!

Jack and the letter song from Julie Tull on Vimeo.


Jack's ABC's from Julie Tull on Vimeo.

And those were just a few highlights...Hope you all had a great week too!

1 comment:

fiona said...

What an eventful week! That's awesome that Paige AND Jonah learned to ride w/out training wheels. Poor Mike missed out on that one! He can teach Jack :) Speaking of Jack, he just sounds and looks sooo big now! I can't believe it. He's doing really well with his abc's. N&B don't have the song down that well yet, but we're working on it! And I was cracking up at him telling you to put the camera away, funny boy! Also (as if this comment isn't long enough), I am quite jealous of that awesome playground/park y'all have.