Silly Moments

Silly did a lot of bike riding this summer. We all set some goals when summer started and one of his goals was to lose the training wheels. He and Cakes rode their bikes while I pushed Bubba in the stroller several morning every week, all summer. I was pretty sure that when Scott took the training wheels off Silly would just go and never give it a second thought. Over Memorial Day Weekend, Scott took him up to the park, found it was closed, then took him to the middle school to ride where there was plenty of grass to fall in and not so many turns, driveways and street crossings to navigate. They weren't gone five minutes before Scott called me to say Silly was riding on two wheels like it was nothing.

Then we had to hold up our end of the deal, which was to buy him a new bike when he started riding on two wheels. He has done a whole lot of 2-wheel riding since then. It was pretty hard for him to get started at first since his new bike is a little too big and his feet can barely touch the ground when he's on the seat. He's got it down now though.

 

He's pretty serious about it too.

The one perk to having him in afternoon Kindergarten is that we have plenty of time in the morning to go out to the bus stop way too early and he can ride his bike for a while. I know getting that exercise before school will help him work, learn and concentrate while he's there. They only get recess three times a week, if they're lucky, which is completely lame, but I try to compensate for that in the mornings.

And speaking of school, he really doesn't have much to say about it. He came home the first day and said, "Well, now I know that my teacher is really mean!" She's tough, but not mean, and a great teacher. At the end of the week he came home and told me she'd noticed his dimples and now she thinks he's cute, as if that was terrible news.

Waiting for the bus.

Three times now the bus driver has just gone right on past me and forgotten that she has my child on her bus. Thankfully there's a bigger boy who knows us and he immediately starts yelling at her that she forgot to drop someone off.

And finally, soccer has started again. First the whole season was moved back a week because of Hurricane Irene. Then the first practice/game was rained out. Then a makeup practice was scheduled but it was rained out too. Finally, last Saturday they had their game in the YMCA gym since it was raining once again. He was so excited (after suffering two weeks of heartbreak because of the rain cancellations). Last year he was right there with the ball all the time but never once kicked it. This time he and one other older boy were pretty much running the whole game. It was awesome. He's awesome.



Getting his pre-game instructions. Twice the coach told him "just stand right here" but didn't explain that he meant "until the game starts" so Silly just stood in the exact spot while everyone else ran around until the coach told him to run.




He's #11, and #2 is his little partner. Right after I took this picture he kicked the ball again and scored! I don't know why, but he was really trying not to grin from ear to ear after he scored, which leaves him making this fish-face. I think maybe he's trying to hide his dimples. Fat chance!

 A few Sillyisms:

Somehow we ended up talking about birthday suits. He said you're always wearing your birthday suit, "except when you're dead, because then you're not in your skin anymore."

The other morning he asked me, "Do you know how I get so smart? I just look inside my brain!"