Pedal bike with no training wheels, soccer class, halloween, and singing

Noah has reached a big milestone in the last couple weeks. He transitioned from the strider/run bike to his big boy “spider man” bike with no training wheels. One night at the velodrome, he rode his strider for almost an hour on the wooden tracks in the middle of the adult race track and then we went outside the track to another kids riding area to try his spider man bike without training wheels.

I put him on top of a small ramp to give him some time to get the pedaling figured out while he was moving, and he got it right away. As soon as he came back around, I turned on the video camera and caught his second and third rides. My heart was quite happy to see him riding and smiling and focusing (with his patented “fish face” of concentration.)

Now all he wants to do is go to the velodrome and ride his bike. Looks like we’ll have to get a season pass for him.

In the video below, you’ll also see him cruising around in his new soccer class, which he loves. He’s almost always the youngest one out there, but holds his own with the bigger kids. He’s still kicking mostly with his left foot, and lately he’s starting to use his left hand more than his right…looks like we might have a lefty in the family

Lastly, in the video, you’ll see a quick moment of him in the locker room at one of the pools in town. After we went swimming for a while, we came back into the locker room to get changed, and once he had his clothes on, out of nowhere he said “Can I go home and sing the Hannukah song with Mommy?” “Sure thing, buddy,” I replied. “Which song are you talking about?” And he started singing a little bit of it. Him singing Hebrew songs melts Mama Bear’s heart.

In addition to the video, I’ve also added a photo gallery with a collection of photos from the last month or so. To see the photos best, it’s better to view them on the site, rather than in the email notification of the post. So just click on the title of the blog post in the email, if you’re reading this from the email notification, and head over to the site to see the video and photo gallery.

Lastly, there’s an audio recording that I captured while all three of us were laying in bed last night. Noah and Mama were singing another Hannukah song together, except that this time, Noah was singing it all by himself. He learned all the words from him and Mama singing it a few times together and wanted to sing it all by himself.

Photos from the last month:

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Noah singing a Hannukah song in bed:

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