biking

so boden went on his first bike ride a couple weeks ago. i know, we are pathetic. this boy should have experienced this before september of his first full summer of life. well, it took our friends brett and sara and their darling little boy evan, who by the way was born just 5 days after our sweet boden.

after daddy figured out how to attach the bike cart to his bike and took it for a spin, he soon realized that the tube in one of his tires had blown. good thing he had gotten a tire repair kit for the macatawa triathlon that he was in last june (before boden was born) and it was still on his bike. so, mommy says 'sure i can pull boden' and off we went with brett, sara, and cute little evan while eric fixed his bike.

eric soon caught up to us, offered to pull boden, but i said i was fine. well, i was soon to find out that either brett and eric were speed demons on wheels, i was terribly slow and out of shape, or it was a lot harder to pull boden in the cart than i thought. :) now, either way, i tip my hat to brett because he was pulling evan in a cart the whole time and still made it seems absolutely effortless. we stayed together as a group for a while, but i was just too slow for the boys and they steadily crept ahead. sweet sara stayed by my side the entire time as i pumped along. now, to eric's credit he did ask several times if he could pull boden (eric has a major complex when ever we are out that he has to be the one pushing the cart) and i said no, i thought i could handle it. at that point i wasn't too tired and it didn't ever occur to me until the very end that maybe the reason it was so hard for me was because i was pulling boden in a big pushcart. that is at least what i have decided to think. i will not be able to prove otherwise unless the six of us go biking again and i don't have to haul boden. :) which i totally would do again, because other than my burning thighs, we had a great time!

now, boden and evan were fabulous little boys and evan looked so cute in his old navy hooded sweatshirt. evan is really interactive and kept pointing to everything. he was also very nice and shared some graham cracker bears with boden. below are some pictures of our fun ride.





then, we went to steak and shake, where the boys enjoyed making eyes at the girls in the diner :) and the adults beamed at the boys. at one point i just had to laugh. the four of us are so whipped by these tiny little creatures. i'm sure anyone looking on thought it funny that grown adults could act so crazy :)

the high chairs had wheels and boden liked pushing himself and evan around.


both boys know how to 'give five.' we tried to get the boys to 'give five' to each other, but boden just left evan hangin'.


at steak and shake, they give the kids hats. we had a hard time getting them bought into keeping them on for more than two seconds, and certainly, never at the same time....

cutie pie evan with mama sara.

our main man, boden.