It'll take me 5 minutes...

I had been secretly hatching a plan for weeks to buy two new bikes from Target, load them in my car, and set them up for Dae as a fun surprise, so I investigated the bikes, took out the carseats Thursday night, and asked the nanny to stay an extra 45 minutes after work on Friday as I went over to Target on my way home from work.  The purchase was successful and I picked up two extra helmets and another toddler seat.

Sometimes Dae is super non-excited for things I think he should be excited about, and sometimes he surprises me with his enthusiasm. Yesterday, he surprised me with his enthusiasm and was so excited he went out to the garage immediately to set up the toddler seats and said "let's go riding tonight!". It was 6:30pm and I knew it was getting dark, so I asked him how long it would take him to get the seats set up. He said "it'll take about 5 minutes!"

Fast forward from 6:30 til 9:00pm....Dae has moved his mechanic shop into the dining room and is slaving away at the toddler seats, having transferred them back and forth in various configurations between the bikes for about 2 1/2 hours. He repeatedly said "these are not easy to set up" and I believe him - he's good at that kind of stuff.

Anyway, set up was eventually a success and we went on a quick ride first thing this morning. I am so excited to ride around once it's consistently warmer! I think the boys really liked it although Olin had a pretty confused look on his face the entire ride.

Today was the 1-mile Leprechaun Dash for Leelee. We signed up for it since all the kids from Sagebrush do it every year. I'll be honest, I had my apprehensions since Leelee has never shown a remarkable interest in running. Well, as Dae and I agreed upon 100%, it was an epic fail. haha. From the get go, I could tell Leelee was just not in the mood (you can see his face from the group photo) and he wanted to be held, or piggybacked, or walk the entire distance. I wanted to finish the entire mile so we did it, but it wasn't altogether pleasant. Olin seemed to have more fun running than Christian. Dae did persuade him to run the last little leg so he looks like he's zooming here at the end, with his finish time of 21 minutes :) He said he had a good time, so that's all that matters.

Christian was excited to see Nel & Adrienne, who ran the entire time!

So on today's agenda was the Leprechaun Dash and two back-to-back barbecues and by 5pm we agreed that it was a little much. We are so tired! I guess we are just not meant to be that social. ha!

Some other notes: Olin now tries to put on shoes or socks himself and seems pretty adept at it, although he has yet to successfully complete either task.

Also, Leelee has been drawing a lot lately. He draws little trains, or clouds and rain, and today he drew "mom and dad, leelee and Olin", but what he really did was just draw in the letters. I find it really interesting that he labeled it M for mom, D for dad, C for Christian and O for Olin. He always does the letters backward (like the D) and he also did the M, D, C, and O in backward order (from right to left).