Today is Sunday and it is the last day that Natalie's mother will be here. We have to take her to the airport tomorrow morning. So, we feel like we are being pushed off, on our own with no more training wheels. Hopefully, Matthew will settle down and get through his colic as fast as possible and then we can get rest and find a routine.

We did have a nice time today. Natalie and her mother found a tricycle at a thrift store that has one of those poles out the back that the parents can use to control the bike. So, Sophia got her first chance to ride. It was quite amusing for Natalie and her mother as Sophia's legs were just a little too short to be effective on the pedals. So she kept looking down at her feet to see what was going on. Of course, this meant that she wasn't paying attention to the handle bars and was constantly driving off to the left or right. She would bang into something and still be looking down at her feet. Natalie was laughing pretty hard at that, but it was annoying to me because I was the one trying to keep her going straight down the road. Every so often I would just push down on the pole which would lift the whole front wheel off of the road so that I could straighten her out. By the end of the walk, I was just pushing her like this all the way back.

On the bright side, we took a walk down the street in a new direction and found another park! This park has animals in it for the kids. Sophia got to see a Shetland Pony, goats and a donkey. There were many other animals including chickens, ducks, geese, and rabbits for her to look at. I think we will be going back.

That's all for now. Life should get more interesting in the next week or two.