Thursday, August 14, 2008

Simple Pleasures...

* Last week Marc learned to ride his bike without training wheels. He was so proud. Then two days ago, when the big kids were in school, I went out with Marc and Brynne on my motorbike. Our destination was a local bike shop and our purpose was to get Marc a new kickstand. Upon arrival he and Brynnie eagerly checked out the selection of bikes and sat on a few. Brynnie was partial to a cute Strawberry Shortcake bike and Marc just tried them all. We found a kickstand, 25,000 rups, and Marc was thrilled. As soon as we got home I installed it. Later he and his neighbour friend, Kaya, were playing in the backyard with their bikes. Both have bikes the exact same size and both have kickstands. They rode and parked and rode and parked their bikes. Then they decided to park them inside so in came the bikes and snap down came the kickstands and off Marc swaggered full of pride - he has a kickstand! So unbelievably cute!!
* Mikah has a new pet. The Togeretz family had a male and female hamster (the female just died today :-() and they got "married" and of their four babies, only one lived and they gave her to Mikah. Mikah has named her Suzie and she wasn't too keen on leaving her "house" to be photographed... And Mikah is of course over the moon to have another pet!






These are some more photos from our day at the waterfall.

1 comment:

Mary said...

Cute hamster...I love the kickstand story..don't you just love it when the kids are sooo happy with just the simplest things?