This summer I'm noticing that girls are "noticing" Hunter. A few in the neighborhood, a few at the pool, and at the parade today. The cute girl at the parade was handing out candy and she gave some to Austin, who of course had a grocery bag and was stealing it from the three years olds. Hunter wasn't and never really has been interested in a lot of sweets (who's child is he???), but this cute girl gave some to Austin and then seeked hunter out and gave him just one piece. I thought maybe she went to his school. So I asked, but no, he didn't know her. Great! I feel the mamma claws coming out with some of these girls and I'm sure that I'm not going to do well when he starts dating. Girls these days are a lot more aggressive than I remember being when I was younger.
Greg and a few of his partners are starting up a pedo clinic which opens in a few weeks. They have had the boys go over and help clean up and tape for painting. One of the times I was told that Austin flat out said no he didn't want to help when asked, which does surprise me a little, he's usually a pretty good helper. So I told him how hard he worked depended on his pay. So they went again yesturday and I told Aust that he should try to work his hardest and he said "That's exactly what I was thinking!" Wow! Good timing right? And when I picked him up he said he worked so hard. Cute kid!
The twins have a thing going where if one is crying and you tell him to calm down the other will say "I not cryin mama!" They do this for everything! When the older boys aren't home I have to lock their room or the twins will play with lego's for hours, destroying all the creative stuff the boys have made. They want to ride their bigwheels all day! Our house is in a culdesac which goes onto a dead end street. In each direction is a gradual hill. They will ride their big wheels up and down it all day if I let them. Peyton loves to go fast and his face is so funny when he goes fast.
We went on a big bike ride over the 4th with some friends. We all have bikes and the twins just get pulled in the Chariot. We went about 24 miles round trip. The whole way Austin is saying are we turning around yet, are we turning around yet, etc...When we finally decided to turn around Greg labeled him a "horse". If you've ever gone horse back riding you know that the horse has a sense when you are heading back and they go faster. They are more determined. That was Austin. He just took off when we said we were going back and we didn't catch him for a good 5-6 miles.
Hat's off to Robyn! Myself, Robyn and Bobbi went on a bike ride this morning. We parked and then rode next to the freeway from the Eagle River exit south to the Hiland exit, which if you are familiar with that area you know it crosses the river and goes up, up, up! Then we went around the loop, past walmart, past skyline drive and to the North ER exit and back to the middle ER exit. It has some pretty consistent hills. Robyn has a pretty cool road bike that makes me have to pedal twice as hard to normally keep up with her. But she was falling behind. At the top of one of the hills she stopped and said something must be wrong with her bike. We were checking it out and sure enough...the gears on the left side of her bike were on the hardest, but she couldn't remember which one was easy or hard. She never got off and walked she just kept pushing through. That's what I love about Robyn...she never gives up!!
I've been really bad about taking pictures so that's why it's all just writing!
