A day at the rodeo

Dante participated in his first Bike Rodeo as part of Bonedale Bike Week. Naturally, he wore his Stars and Stripes skinsiut, as would any serious athlete. He kept saying "bicycle race", then would ride as fast as he could, chasing the other kids, all of whom were considerably older.

He made multiple laps through the chalk-line course, and was well behaved in line waiting his turn.

He also participated in the paperboy race, although he needs a bit of work on this throwing arm.

In this photo, his paper caddy assisted in the race. Dante was in bike heaven all day- he had to be pried off the bike to go home.

This past weekend, he rode about a mile on the Prince Creek trails- up Porcupine Road to the Porcupine trail, then a bit of singletrack and then back to the car. The whole way he chased Dad and Newman and kept shouting "bicycle race!"

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The weather turned nice in late February and early March, so Dante went out to do laps around the driveway.
Naturally, Billy (the small cat) went along.

All in all it was a good day for ridin'.

And now we are 2

Here's a ski pic from Dec 27 at Ajax. We put on little plastic skis and stood around the top of the hill watching the gondy go by.

First, let me just say, that's a lot of cat.

Marge had another hit with her wooden tractors- it was the first gift he opened, and when he was offered more wrapped presents, he said "No more. Done."

Eventually, he came around.

Tooot.

Tub toys.

The best part: playing with fire!

So, we'll try to post more pics for this year- really!