Bikes and Cakes

She finally did it.  It took a lot of patience, tears, and scrapes.  My Kali can ride a two wheeler.  She is pretty excited and learned over two days.  Last Saturday, we took her to the local toboggan hill with 3 different bikes, a coaster, a small bike with 12 inch tires, and a bigger one featured below.  We had her coast down the hill using her legs as skis, but keeping her weight on her seat.  She did good on the coaster, but the bikes with the pedals caused some serious adversity.  After 3 hours and bribes galore we had to give up short of her riding on her own.  Then on Monday we took her to a park really close to our house with a really small hill, she was happy and picked it up really fast and rode a while on the grass by herself.  Then later that afternoon Spence had her riding in the back alley, she still has to master the steering but it will come in time.  We are so excited that she can ride a two wheeler, it opens the door to so many adventures for our family.


I've been wanting to do this for a while, I finally covered my pine, scratched, stained, kitchen table with countertop laminate.  It looks awesome.  I love how sturdy it is.  I love how I did it all by myself.  I remind Spencer often how awesome I am and how great the table looks, he's so good at agreeing enthusiastically.  I'll kill two birds with one stone here, the picture below is of Kali, our friend Jen and I destroying the leftovers of a Safeway cake, which was so liberating.  It also shows the table and in the background you can see how my kitchen has no wall behind me, the one that Spencer took out a few weeks ago.

Our kitchen is on hold till we get our electrical permit, I hope we can get it soon, it's Spencer's department.