He's bad, uh huh.

Varoom! When they found out he still used training wheels on his bicycle, they took him off the dirt bike and put him on a little ATV. It was automatic. It was motorized. Motorized? No biggie, it had a governor on it. It's a good thing too because he rode the thing flat out the whole way.

That was the first year. This year, he was bound and determined to lose the training wheels and could have graduated to a real dirt bike. He opted for the ATV again because he decided he didn't have the patience to wait for a lesson. They gave him one without a governor.



He rode this one flat out too. Va-room!
My favorite part is all the safety gear.

Wan-n-na swim-m-m.

"Aiden, your lips are blue. It's time you got out."
"... but I don't want to get out."
"I know hon, but you're cold and you really need to get out."
"I'm n-n-not c-c-cold-d-d."

Soccer

Our hero has recently developed a love of soccer. Perhaps it's because his school buddies play with the local league. At any rate, for several months now, he was determined to take up soccer this summer. As the weather warmed up, I investigated the local soccer club to discover that every other parent had beat me to the list and the registrations were already closed. I was still in a winter coat for heavens sakes! He was delighted to hear that he was signed up for a few beginner soccer lessons with the city-run program. Today they called to tell me it has been cancelled due to low registration. Poor guy! I'll have to start looking again.

Subway jumper?

Ok relax. He din't jump in front of a train.

We were actually on our way out of the subway in London and within sight of the stairs going up from the platform when Aiden spotted some intriguing red buttons spaced at intervals along the wall. All kids love buttons and Aiden is no exception.

Maybe he saw me looking in the same direction too as I was busily reading the large sign nearby which told about the purpose of the device. He must also have seen the neatly drawn picture of someone pressing the button which was right there on the sign. Having read the writing on the wall, I decided to keep my little fireball close to me till we were safely out of the subway. However there were quite a few people on the platform and this hampered our progress. I held his hand tightly, afraid to lose him in the crowd. He was dragging along behind me as we hurried along.

Before I knew what was happening, he had taken calculated control of the whole situation. With perfect timing and grace, he started to run and took a flying leap at one of the buttons as we went by. As I held on tightly, he used my arm like a rope to swing himself around and just close enough to push the button before he landed in front of me and spun the two of us completely around with his momentum. It was a silent alarm he had just triggered. That was what the sign had said.

Trying to look as inconspicuous as possible, we continued walking quietly up the stairs and out of the subway as Aiden curiously watched all the brave security guards hurrying down the stairs in the opposite direction. I hope they weren't too disappointed. It's too bad they missed his smashing aerobatic act!

Have a photo of one of those buttons? Please send me a link.