Ben Rides His Bike!

Finally!  Ben (will be 9 in 2 months) got fired up to learn to ride his bike (actually Connor's old bike).  Dad runs along side him for the morning session, holding it by the handle, but not needing to help hardly at all.  Then after lunch, another session, and now he's riding solo!

Funny - he was talking about Yosemite (from the point of view of biking) while I was running around next to him on the bike.

We even went around the little block after a while!

Way to go Baby B!

TV Shows They're Into These Days

We still watch Survivor religiously (meaning we watch every episode, eventually - although way behind real-time).  Daddy has never missed an episode in the 20-something seasons it's played.

They're recently into some older shows:

• Batman (the older original ones.  POW, BANG, etc)
• Curious George (Ben still likes to catch up on CG with some chocolate milk if he has a say in it)
• Brady Brunch
• Phineas and Phurb
• Ben into James Bond movies lately

Veady!

Ben has been doing this for a LONG time now, and we think it's so dang cute.

He goes up to brush teeth, and then when he's "ready", he stands at the top of the stairs and yells down:

"Veady" (still kind of throws a V in when he says an R, depending on the word)
"Are you both coming up?"

Cute boy.

2015 update - he has added to his repertoire with more status:

"RBR" (ready but reading)

Going up to brush teeth, "Will notify when ready"