Category: Chloe (Page 12 of 20)

And she’s off!  I’m not sure if you can see it in the pictures, but she was very excited in the first picture (taken at home) and quite a bit more nervous in the second picture (taken at school).  I’m hopeful that she’ll have wonderful stories of what she did and that she’ll be excited to go again tomorrow!

Yesterday was a monumental day for Chloe….

She can now ride her bike with NO TRAINING WHEELS!

It was a bit accidental, truth be told.  We’ve been walking with a church friend a lot this summer and Chloe as been getting better and better and not tipping onto her training wheels, but she definitely was still using them.  However, as her training wheels started to tip (we hadn’t secured them very well apparently) I didn’t straighten them… so she was learning little by little.

That brings us to yesterday and cleaning out our garage.  She found a smaller bike with no training wheels and grabbed it and hopped on.  As I turned to yell at her to stop taking stuff out of the piles I realized that she was riding the bike!  She rode a few feet and then stopped and looked back at me to make sure I had seen it.  Sure enough–just like THAT she’s figure it out all on her own!  She rode the smaller bike for a while and started begging me to take off her training wheels on her big bike. After begging and begging I finally agreed… and viola!  She’s good!  (The picture above is the smaller bike in case you’re wondering)

To add excitement to the day, Chloe ALSO got to say up late to see the fireworks (for the first time she can remember).  I think we saw fireworks once or twice since she was born but she slept through them if I remember correctly…  so this was double excitement!  She got to stay up way past her bedtime, walk down to the big park on the river with Auntie Jen and me, eat popcorn, watch the stars emerge and see fireworks that she’ll actually be able to remember!  I was a little worried it would be too loud for her, but she was totally fine.  It was a fun evening!  Well, besides the fact that the mosquitoes were HORRENDOUS!  I think I came home with 7 bites–and I was wearing pants, a sweatshirt with a hood and I was tucked under our blanket!

Chloe is spending a few days at Nana and Bumpa’s house!  This is the first year she has been so excited about going–of course she’s finally to the age that she can understand counting down the days and realizing she is getting to do something fun that Josiah isn’t getting to do… 🙂  So it was doubly exciting this year.

I got her all packed up and we met Nana halfway and away she went!  She called tonight to ask a question (about where something was packed) and after I answered she happily (and quickly) said “Ok!  I love you, goodbye!”

She’s growing up so fast!

Today the kids and I were out for a walk/jog and a police man pulled over next to us.  He got out of his car and asked if he could speak to us.

After my momentary panic, I said, sure.  🙂

He smiled and walked up with a paper in this hand.   It turns out he actually wanted to talk to Chloe…

He told her that since she was practicing good safety and wearing her helmet as she rode her bike, he wanted to present her with a special coupon to get a free ice cream cone from DQ!  She was stunned and then thrilled.  And I’m pleased to say that through her surprise she still practiced good manners and thanked him before he headed back to her car.

It’s part of a new promotion the city is doing:  “Caught being good.”   Isn’t that fun?  And I’m pretty sure that ensured that Chloe won’t be complaining about wearing her helmet anymore!

The whole rest of trip home she talked about how she wants to be a police officer when she grows up and then she can give kids free things…

I was uploading the video from yesterday and I found this random carrot video. I actually took the video to get her to eat her carrots–which worked really well. (Trust me, we don’t take many video of us just eating at the table… hehe!) I especially love her big smile after she bites the carrot–sheer joy!