He Did It!

Our little cyclist has decided it's time to ride his bike like a big boy now, instead of with training wheels! Actually, we decided for him but he's taken to it really well! One Sunday afternoon we thought we'd take him for a ride (without training wheels) just to see how he goes......we gave him so help getting his bike started and then ran along beside him, offering some help balancing a few times to stop him from falling. After about 30 minutes of this, he could do it.....all by himself!

It's been about a month now, since that first session of riding without training wheels and he's brilliant! He learnt on the week end how to start his bike without our help and now there's no stopping him.....he zooms along so much faster now.

Here he is on Sunday July 25 2010

Trip to Manly

In June we went to Sydney for Jimmy's Annual Soft Tissue Therapy Conference that he organises. This year was in Manly and of course, the boys and I had to come along - I have such fond memories of trips to Manly (Fairlight to be exact) to visit my Grandma and cousins in school holidays. It was so fun to go back there and walk along the Corso and remember how much I loved it as a kid....we used to stop at the ice cream shop on the corner and then walk down the Corso to the beach - here we'd sit on the wall and lick our ice creams with our biggest worry in the world being the long walk back to Grandma's house :)

While we were in Manly I took the boys to Oceanworld and the boys got to see the sharks in the tunnel and then on Sunday we caught the Ferry over to Circular Quay with Grandma and had a ride on a horse and carriage.....