ILP rolling photo quarantine 2

(lurking here. oh hi!)

BMX Bandits ftw!

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Haha Mike I wish. I was shooting photos of Carnival and I had to take that camera home from work the previous Friday so that I'd have it on the day. I had no idea how HEAVY those cameras are. But I wish I'd had the foresight to take a few more, uh.. you know, TEST shots.

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Love that bike photo! Striders are pretty awesome, L had one until a couple of weeks ago when he graduated to a pedal bike. My only beef with them is that the fork isn't welded to the tube it sits in, and frankly I have no idea what was holding it in place but eventually L's fork just basically fell out and I had to put a nut and bolt through the hole that's helpfully provided.. but it needs tightening every week or so, otherwise the steering gets wobbly.

yeah we have to tighten sylvie's regularly. but she is crazy about it and is surprisingly good at riding -- surprisingly because she's kind of clumsy when it comes to a lot of other things.

bike pic is great- there are many great ones on the thread.

i just bought a superzoom and am trying to learn how to take pictures. it's been a good distraction while i recover from surgery, but the surgery was on my hand, which makes manipulation of the camera hard.

Love the bike pic! After using the Striders, my boys learned how to ride real bikes, sans training wheels, in about 5 minutes (when they turned 4!).

same here, first kid used likeabike from 2-3, when i put him on the bike i just got him to coast down a gentle hill and experiment w pedaling.

second kid rejected likeabike in favor of training wheels, took her way longer, like an extra season.

yeah hard to tell how long she'll be on the strider and how the transition to a real bike will go ... her balance is pretty much all there, guess it's just figuring out how to pedal.

OMG, August's sitting up already?!

A whizzed around on his balance bike but when we bought him a pedal bike he was a teeny bit too small for it and it put him off it for ages. When he finally agreed to have a go on it he was off and away after about 5 mins of slowly trying it out.

I have no idea where my babies went

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A won't let me cut his hair but he HATES getting it washed and refuses to brush it, fun times at bathtime in our house

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Adding to the bike madness. It's a pedal bike with training wheels. I advocated for a balance bike, but economics ultimately won out when we found this for $30 at a consignment shop. She's been watching her brother zoom around and trying to pick up other big kids' bmx bikes when we're at the playground. Not pedalling yet, but we push her around on it and she gets the biggest grin on her face.

or this:

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or this:

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Awwww! That's an A+ basket too.

Also August sitting up and Aiden has a sister??? Time needs to chill the f out already.

*emerging from lurker status* I LOVE HIM HE IS GETTING SO BIG OMG

lol that is a great pic. he looks very poised for his age.

here's the wife and kid standing on some kind of log bridge high in the mountains of colorado

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ha! what a cutie.

She's FIVE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcXNf8oZ6uA

haaaa.
<3 tera's gif too!
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here's sylvie throwin' rocks.

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one more! trying on her halloween costume and doing a ridiculous dance. this pic kind of made me tear up, despite how hilarious it is. how long will she be this un-self conscious and goofy?

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of course, maybe she'll be doing this when she's 25 and i'll be totally embarrassed.

Attitude on the Tube

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Benched

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If she's still doing that when she's 25 she'll be a rock star.

hard to look brooding when your raincoat is covered in dancing bears, but she pulls it off!

Ava looks like a sullen teenager there! STOP GROWING UP SO FAST LITTLE PEOPLE.

Had a moment like that with my 8-year-old last weekend. We were having a party with the whole extended family and I caught a glimpse of him through a window, lurking outside in the rain, wearing all black with fingerless gloves. Why are you lurking? Where did you get fingerless gloves? Where did you get the idea to wear fingerless gloves?

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note that i am wearing a winter coat while she is not. this is because we could not get the coat on her and eventually gave up.

evie was in a crabby mood this morning, here she is wanting my wife to pick her up and carry her to day care instead of walking

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awwwwww :/

lol i know that look well. hard to resist.
here's sylvie's jack o lantern. she drew the face and my wife carved it. not bad for a first attempt! she's trying to make the same face in the pic.
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and yeah, we're also in for a lonnnnnnnng winter of physically restraining our kid while putting on winter coats. dude, it is cold out!

I just got to the point where H will let me put on his socks.

bit dark but it's a rare photo in which none of them is pulling a horrible face or turning away

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I am enjoying your boys' haircuts so much.

Looking good! Last day in the water for the boat, and SOMEONE got to skip school to "help."

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And when he was good, he was very, VERY good. And when he was bad, he was...HELP! A SHARK!

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Aw Laurel, your nephew is adorable!

awesome shark face

He has giant saucer eyes to rival Ava & Lulu's, there must be a saucer eye gene.

soooo cute!

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Ava won't let her Potter down at Crewe station.

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Good girl.

but..but you're at the completely wrong station! she'll never get to Hogwarts there!

Reminds me - a very cheap day out for Ava would be a trip to see the plaque (and half-embedded luggage trolley) at Kings X...

I am officially an old, because when you said "Potter" I thought Beatrix and not Harry.