Sunday, April 26, 2009

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Kiah learns to ride her bike

In Cambridge, bikes are essential. Everybody has one, it is the main transportation of the city. I read somewhere that about 30,000 people ride their bikes to work everyday in Cambridge. You will find the young and the old on a bike. It always encourages me to see someone in the 70's riding their bike to the store. Kids learn to ride bikes very young here since the start school at age 4. So Kiah was a little on the old side around here still riding her bike with training wheels. So on Saturday, we decided it was the day to take them off. She caught on so quickly. After a few spills she was off and riding. She says, "The hardest part is to get going by myself. Sometimes Daddy gives me a little push."




Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Kid Thoughts

I love listening to a 5 year olds' ideas. Kiah's world is so innocent and fun. Recently, a friend in our complex was moving back to Singapore. While I was explaining this to Kiah she asked, "What do people do in Singapore, do they sing?" A few days earlier I had made fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy. I asked her if she wanted gravy on her potatoes, she said "No." She went on to say, "The only gravy I like is pancake gravy." I asked her what pancake gravy was, and she said "Syrup."

Jacob on the other hand is such a simple little guy. The other night before bed he looked out the window and saw the moon. He said, "I am going to get a rope so I can catch the moon."

I love their creativity together. This morning, they were locking a mean old crocodile in the cabinet with very cheap tape. One of the their other favorite games recently has been "water park." They get on their swimsuits and pretend their beds are water slides. They even measure each other to see if they are tall enough to ride.