I'll help!

I recently started biking to get Sam from school and having him bike home with me. Well, when I say me, I mean us since I'm pulling Thomas and Andrew in the bike trailer. Overall it works pretty smoothly, but the hardest part is getting up the steep hill at the beginning of Falcon Street with a bike trailer full of at least 50 lb of kid in it. The first time up, Andrew asked why I was walking and pushing the bike with such obvious effort. I explained it was hard to get them up the hill. Andrew said, "Mommy, I'm helping push you." I thought to myself, Oh really, kid? It was all I could do to keep pushing and say "How is that Andrew?" He replied, without missing a beat, "I'm pushing you with my mind, Mommy." Awesome. I'll take that any day, Andrew. :)

Little musician?

Thomas has long shown a love of clapping along to music. Okay, he's only 16 months old, so it couldn't have been that long. But when Andrew was learning songs for his Christmas concert at the retirement center, Thomas loved to clap along to Jingle Bell Rock as Andrew sang it. Just now I had Pandora playing kids' music and the song "7 8 9" by Bare Naked Ladies came on. Thomas squealed with delight and came running over, clapping to listen to the song. Wow!

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