The best toys

The best toys are holes in the dirt and bright, shiny pennies.

Driving the Bus

Ramon is obsessed with buses. He hums and then says, "Bus!" at the right spot for Wheels on the Bus. He carries around Fillmore from the Cars movie all the time saying bus. He also calls a lot of other wheeled things buses while pointing at their wheels, bopping up and down and humming.

When Daddy drove by in our bus he tried to run as fast as he could on the sidewalk to catch up...then he refused to leave it parked on the street so we could play in the park.

Here he is driving already :).

Wheels

It has been forever since I posted. So much has been happening so quickly that it will be a while before I get caught up :).

We spend a lot of time in Isham Park. There are always gobs of kids and great piles of toys to run off with. It seems like Ramon touches every wheeled item in the park at least once every time we go. He especially likes the mini kickboards (little scooters with two wheels up front instead of one). Last week I was talking to another mommy and she was saying that her 13 month old girl figured out how to ride one. She gets up on it and totally kicks one leg out to move. I was very impressed. I said that Ramon didn't do that. He kind of pushes 'em around and tips 'em over to play with the wheels. So I turned to throw Ruta's ball cuz he barked at me and this mommy says, "Uh, Cherith...you should see this..." Ramon made a liar out of me...he was totally riding somebody's kickboard. And now he has his own :).

I'm still figuring out how to use the camcorder function on my HTC Incredible so the video is sideways...but here you go :).



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Ramon's latest doctor checkup

Here's the the latest stats. I kind of like this virtual wall measure:).

new maplewoodpizzeria.com is up and running

The new maplewoodpizzeria.com website is up and running for business. We used squarespace and it worked out pretty well. Reminded me a lot of hosted wordpress, but with fewer plugins and a little easier to work with. Check it out.

awesome book on how to ride a bike

A wonderful book. Ramon has been playing with the push bike we got him and he's definitely starting to warm up to it. I think going at his pace is key. Peter's story will help us keep in mind the key principles and daddy's two favorite principles - keep it fun and a bit of speed is helpful:). Thanks Oliver!

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/11124

Looking in the Catskills

We've been checking out places in the Catskills. I think we found a place we liked and Ramon and Ruta really liked it. Our offer is accepted, so hopefully soon we can be spending more time up in the beautiful Catskills.