In classic RPM style, Pax woke up today and declared today is the day he will ride with no training wheels. So after naptime, we tried it. We took them off, helmeted up, I pushed him off, and he did it! He kept going, all the way down our driveway, into the grass, into our neighbor's driveway....first time. He called his daddy, and Alan came home from work to watch him a few times. I was pushing him off, but he was riding....fast. He had so much fun - he showed our neighbor Jim, and the Boutwells (his Sunday school teachers) when they drove by. He was really excited.
This evening, we were out practicing and the Schumans walked by. Courtney just learned to ride with no training wheels last week, so she showed Pax how to start on his own. Christa and Courtney coached him for a bit, and he got it, all by himself. He was SO proud. He landed in the grass after a big long ride, and got up with a big thumbs-up to us.
For the last few months, we've had the great blessing of being in Miss Natalie's Spanish class with Las Semillitas de Espanol. The boys look forward to it every week! Natalie is flat out brilliant as an educator, and I'm learning just as much watching the way she teaches (everything through music and nonverbal cues - it's so surprising how much we understand.) I wonder if my Spanish prof had sung to us if I might have eeked out a C or B in college Spanish!
