Leah's Growing Up.

Leah decided this week that she wanted to learn to ride a bike without training wheels. We really hadn't wanted to push her, but when she said that she wanted it, we decided that we needed to work with her on it. I think she decided it was time since our new neighbors include a girl who is probably 9 or 10 and rides without training wheels. Although the process started off as an exercise time for Rod (running after Leah and trying to hold on), Leah picked up quickly. When Rod took a break, next thing we knew, Leah was off riding on her own. She is getting better every time she tries to ride. She is still learning how to turn, but I think that the training wheels may be gone for good. I am hoping for no big crashes. So far we only have had small ones and one where she crashed into Alissa. I am very proud of her. I don't think that I learned to ride without training wheels until I was 8.

We practiced in the next door long drive. It gave Leah a long straight stretch and the other two love to ride over there too.





Since this post is mostly about Leah, I think it is an appropriate place to include Leah's latest fashion idea. She often will make her cat Harvey do more than any cat would want to. She makes him play baby and puts bracelets around his neck. However, the most recent shocked even me.

Yes, Harvey is sporting a lovely pair of barrettes on his ears. They were in there good because I didn't find him until he had been wearing them for around an hour. You can't really tell, but Leah also used quite a bit of hair spray on his head and gave him a spike hair do. When I took the barrettes out, Harvey's ears where rather squished and had barrette marks in them for quite some time. That cat is certainly very tolerant of Leah.