"You're Lame!"

I know, I know.

My blog-friend, MamaC-ta, was quite clear what she thought of my two week absence from UberDaddy. "You're Lame! ;)" Tell me something my wife hasn't already, would ya?

Holy blazing saddles, Batman. We need a break.

Thankfully, said break has arrived. I just finished my hell-class at Villa Julie. Just in time to do the taxes; which, if you're me, is a fun way to see how much I can avoid funding our current administration's expensive mess. But that's another post.

Things are looking quite a bit brighter here at the Uber household, literally much brighter. The windows are wide open and springtime is pouring in. All this sunshine and relative warmth has gotten us in the mood for the great out-of-doors.

In one of those 'turned out better than you could have ever dreamed' occurances, it turns out that Henry LOVES to wear his bike helmet. (I guess those hours of ridicule from my wife while I walked around the house with a bike helmet on have paid off!) He will climb into the bike trailer, sit down, and say, "HENT! HENT!" Are you kidding me? How did I get this lucky?

Here's another of Henry's new tricks:

He gets up off his butt and goes into wild celebration: "YEAH!!"

Except for the time he got to the top, got his shoes stuck, and went off backwards from the top step. THUD. He even bounced. Holy crap was I scared, thankfully for no reason at all. He cried for about 45 seconds in my arms before he calmed down. A kiss on the head and a firm hug and all is well (again, thankfully). Showing his tendency for stubborness, he didn't hesitate when we put him right back on the slide to try again.

It is SO important to show your kid how to get up, dust off, and get back to it once you know you're not hurt. I plan on expanding on this a little after reading a post on MamaC-Ta's blog about letting our kids be afraid and the callous treatment some people give their male children to "toughen them up". I agree that it is lame for a parent to make fun of their boy if he is scared and tell him to stop crying from a distance if he is hurt, but I do think that we have to do more than just cuddle them if they do get a scrape. Show them all the love they need, and that you are sorry about and understand their pain. Then show them how to deal with the pain, and if they can, go on with what they were doing. All with LOTS of love and understanding.

Anyway, lots of other excitement in the past two weeks as well:

I got to ride at Lake Redman, just a few minutes north of here, a couple of times with all the sunny days we've had. I'll tell you what, the singlespeed kicks my ass but good. Sheesh. For the uninitiated, you can read about the SSweet world of SS HERE. Here's a couple shots from one of my rides:


My legs felt like 75 lbs of jello each after Redman. But this is good for me, and my shrinking cholesterol levels.

Ok, a few more photos of the kid and I'm out.







Colorado, here we come!


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