Whenever Daniel goes unsupervised in our garage, he goes straight for the two kid-sized snow shovels and proceeds to scrape them across driveway, grass and sidewalks.
Daniel has definitely reached the age when he knows he's a (cute) rascal.


Stuart has been asking us for the last few weeks if he could take the training wheels off his bike. He hadn't even tried them unbalanced yet (he was basically riding a tricycle), but was undeterred by comments from a more fearful Simon like, "Stuart, it's not as easy as it looks." (Simon is not the most courageous kid I've ever met in terms of mastering new skills and has yet to let us so much as loosen his training wheels). Anyways, we unbalanced them quite a bit for him (I think he needs a couple more days of practice before we take them all the way off) and here he is, proudly sporting his helmet and gear and trying to ride "super speedy." Hmmm....I think his bike is getting too small.