Sunday, March 02, 2008

I aged 7 years in 1 min today

What...ok I will explain. since I know this makes sense in my head, but you are not in my head....are you???
SO we have great neighbors...no news there....one has 2 boys that ride dirt bikes...the oldest is almost 15 and really talented on his bike....so Reid has an idol, and younger of the boys is in 5th grade. They have been riding so several years and have gotten pretty good, Dale learned to ride a 2 wheel bike uhhh 2 months ago and is still very much a beginner at that and a never ever on a motorcycle. We do own a small dirt bike....but the boys have not ridden it since they could not ride a regular bike and enjoy the 4 wheelers. The neighbors boys were riding the little 50 bike this weekend just for fun, and actually was good for the bike since we really have never ridden it in the 1.5 years we have had it. Dale decided after seeing how cool the older boys thought the bike was that he too wants to ride it now... did I mention he was a never ever on the motorcycle...ok so I am chatting with a neighbor....the one whos kids ride and Reid is riding a 4-wheeler...all is pretty good ...then I see in our front yard Dale, Duke and the motorcycle....ok...litterally all in like 30 seconds Dale guns it on the bike and is FLYING, Reid is rubbernecking to see and it not looking in front of him and there is a car backing out down the street, I holler at Reid who avoids the car and stops and Dale well he did not stop until he NAILED a 2 foot tall concrete wall on the other side of the driveway next to our yard...and flys off....Thank GOODNESS for Helmets...he was unharmed, a small bruise on the leg, huge shot to the ego as the older boys were watching him and he was embarrassed that he did not ride like a professional on his first time. So all the motorized things were put up for a while, but Reid did make a ramp with some plywood and a block of wood and did stunts and jumps off of that ALL day on his bike and on a razor scooter...which is nothing really new for Reid as he was doing "stunts" and "wheelies" on his foot powered 3 wheeler since he was 1 yr old, only difference is he is actually getting a little air off his jumps and stunts now...and the helmet is actually necessary rather than something to make parents giggle at their walking bobble head kids.
Hopefully in the next few weeks there will be great pictures of so new landscaping to our yard...hopefully Rock walls, leveling, new sod and plants and I was going to price a hot tub but think that will have to wait from a cost standpoint as the money tree I planted never took, died and gave a fungus to all the plants around it.

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