Moments later, she decided to ride down the short steep hill of our driveway, and we experienced our first crash. She cried and cried and cried over her scraped knee, got pudding and an Angelina Ballerina movie instead of dinner with lots of snuggling. The next day, I realized she had a big bruise on her shin, poor girl, in addition to the little scrape. Of course, she was back riding down the hill yesterday. <\/div>\n
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And we’ve not told you about his new bike! He’s got a brand-spankin’-new Trek Madone 5.5<\/a>, which he calls The Hornet because of its flashy paintjob. Trek offered the entire team the bikes at cost, so it was an amazing deal. (Anyone want to buy 2-year old Trek Madone with more miles than we care to mention??) He loves the new bike. He’s hoping to post a blog soon called "The State of the Bikes". Lest you think I’m totally on the ball with the Christmas cookies, decorations, lights, etc, I’m not. The tree is up, but the kids are daily un-decorating it, the boxes are still in the living room, only a few decorations are out, and I’m only about 50% done with my Christmas shopping. And the artsy-crafty Christmas cards haven’t been touched in a while. Time to get on the ball! But the Christmas spirit abounds here! <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is what happens when I get a nap on Saturday afternoon AND I don’t have to work on my weekly Sunday School lesson late into the night \ud83d\ude42 You get to enjoy pictures! Here’s just a couple quick ones from this week! Crazy girl! Princess shoes, pink tutu not exactly matching the red jacket, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-81","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
And two other biking tidbits… He’s been upgraded to Category 1\/ elite. Woohoo! Now he won’t have to petition to get into the big races. And his response to the crazy angry bike article<\/a> was printed by the Huntsville Times, and you can see it here<\/a>. <\/div>\n<\/p>\n