More fall Fun

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Daniel has a new love, his bicycle.

Now, the original plan was that he was going to get a bike for his 4th birthday in April - eg: after this winter. But then Eric found a guy on craigslist who had two 12" bikes for $25. So he called the guy and agreed to pick up the bikes that evening up in Thornton (about 20 miles north).

To shorten a longish story, Daniel was ecstatic about the deal, so he came along for the ride, and then Hank the jerk didn't show because he sold the bikes to someone else.
Daniel was confused, but not whiny. But still, it's not fair to ask a a 3-year-old to go on a 60 minute drive to get a bike and then it doesn't work out. Luckily it was still possible to get a new one that evening. Daniel jumped right on, and mastered pedalling and braking like he'd been doing it for ever. For the next several days, it was hard to get him off the bike as he zoomed around the cul-de-sac. As part of the deal, the tricycle is now Rachel's - Daniel has no interest in it anymore.

Speaking of Rachel, on the same evening that Daniel got he bicycle, Rachel decided to walk backwards for the first time. She was *very* excited about this, proclaiming "backads! backads!" as she shuffled along backwards. This has been repeated many times since then.

Let's see - what else? Oh yes, in the last post, I promised pictures and video from the day out with Thomas, and while the video isn't all that exciting, if you pay close attention around 35 seconds in, you'll see the gang sitting in the first car. And the inflated guy in the hat is "Sir Topham Hat" for you non-Thomas-literate. I'm sure that meeting him was a great honor.

This posting was almost labeled "the internet sucks" for the combination of the bike fiasco and sumsy-gate. You may remember that Daniel was within a sticker of earning Sumsy the forklift at last post. And when he reached that goal, we discovered that Bob-the-Builder legos are pretty much only available online, and have delivery times of a week or more. So Daniel got to place the order on eBay, but then he wanted to go down to the UPS store immediately to pick up his present - because the "UPS guy" brings everything from the internet. We had to print off a map of the USA and plot Sumsy's progress from New Jersey to Colorado over 4-5 days to resolve this, but ultimately, he was happy when she arrived.



















What else? Well, we went to a high school football game, which was a little too intense for everybody, and the annual fall festival for our local town which was very nice. Rachel decorated a pumpkin, and Daniel had a dragon painted on his arm. There may be pictures of that in future posts.

Starting tomorrow, the house fills with visitors in town for the GABF. Should be fun.

Love, ADRE