Ball and Bike Helmet

This morning Liza didn't know how she'd accomplish all she hoped to do. She couldn't figure out how to drink her milk and play with the ball at the same time.

We play bounce the ball and she loves watching it go up and down (she moves her head up and down as it's bouncing up and down). When it comes to rest she points at it and runs over to get it. Sometimes she hopes you'll bring it to her.

Because as you can see she has a hard time seeing where she is going while carrying the ball.

The inaugural Bair family bike ride, with Liza's new bike trailer, was *supposed* to take place last night. Thursday nights in Grinnell are big time with the farmers market and music in the park so Bair planned for us to ride down to the event. He got everything ready (my bike had cobwebs on it), we put Liza in the trailer and Bair rode on the sidewalk 2 houses down to make sure she liked it. She loved it! That is until her bike helmet had to be put on. She wasn't having any of it. It's just so big on her little head and makes her head pitch forward which can't be comfortable. No matter how many times we tried to adjust it she wasn't happy. We've had this helmet for several weeks and she's been wearing it around inside the house to get used to it and she calls it her big hat so we were so surprised by her reaction. After 6 failed attempts we gave up. She was so glad to get out of the bike trailer. Liza pointed at the car and said Go. So off we went to the festivities in the car and left the bikes parked in the yard! Oh my oh my - let's hope for better luck next time.

When I showed her the helmet this morning you can see where she put it - on the ground next to her. The upside of this photo is that she walked up to the photograph on the left and correctly identified it as her Poppa without any prompting!