Keeping touch via the internets

My friend Sarah recently started a blog (but, um, Sarah you haven't been posting!!) as a quick way to keep her far-flung friends up-to-date with what's going on. Not a bad idea, I thought - and then dropped the ball on the project for a good month or so. (Actually it's more like Alex ripped the ball out of my hands and threw it out the window, but "dropped the ball" is so much shorter. I'm all about the short.) But at the moment I'm home alone with a minute to myself and the Tour de France on in the background (individual time trial, Fabian Cancellara crashed hard) so I thought I'd try to get something started.

The exciting news of the day (if you're Alex, especially) is that we finally bought Alex a Like-a-Bike. We've been meaning to all summer (summer? what summer?) and finally got around to it this morning, along with his helmet (a Giro, of course, like his Mama), and he won't be parted from it; he even had to have the helmet in bed with him when he took his nap this afternoon, with the Like-a-Bike on the floor nearby. (Yeah, that was a short nap.) He's sort of getting the hang of it, but in the short run taking him places on the Like-a-Bike is going to be soooooo much slower than the old bicycle on a stick. It's threatening to rain (yes, again) so Reto and Alex are out with the Like-a-Bike getting in some practice runs while they can (hence my moment alone) before the rain rain rain comes down down down.

I don't know how often I'll update this; I'll try to throw up something once a week, assuming we have something interesting to report once a week. Otherwise I can always just put up pictures of Alex who is, if I may say so, way cute. To wit:


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(Anybody taking bets on whether Alex will ever deign to get on that bicycle on a stick ever again now that he has a Like!A!Bike!?)

Over time I hope to make the template more interesting and add some links and widgets, but that's pretty low priority around here. I'm hoping to just get a post up every now and then.

Tschuss for now!

UPDATED with pictures on the Like-a-Bike: