Vignettes

Today Toby learned how to ride a bike! He is already past due on this, due to the fact that the only place to learn is across town and we just never have time to take him. This morning, however, we went to see friends and took some time to finish the job. The grin on his face was enormous and his whole body said "Yesssss!". Here's a photo of him later on his bike, still happy and proud. You may wonder about the shiner. He fell on Monday night (five days ago) out of his 2-storey bamboo playhouse while trying to leap into a nearby tree. His experiment with gravity succeeded and ground met face, resulting in a broken blood vessel and resultant very impressive black eye. Although it was very sore at first, now it just makes him a celebrity.

Ben has been busy with his own little projects, of a somewhat different nature. Yesterday morning I came out of the back door to find him walking across the yard, pants pulled down enough to pee in the can he was holding in front of himself. Why he thought he needed to pee in a can while walking across the yard, I've no idea. He tripped and spilled pee down his leg, and then threw the can and started dancing around like he was on fire, shrieking with dismay! I was so helpless with laughter that I couldn't do anything to help him. A bath followed. Toby tells me that Ben had done this the day before, and he likes to fill up cans and dump them in the bushes. No, I don't know why. Sigh. I'm trying to teach him to pee in the bathroom, hoping this is just a phase. And no, I'm not going to post a photo! - Cami