Scott and Kate are quite the contrasting pair. Scott being very reluctant to do new things by himself, and Kate being QUITE the opposite. Kate seems to be quickly overtaking Scott in many areas. Yesterday was an interesting day of firsts in our house.
First of all Kate, my little pantry bandit, came wandering up to me drinking a contraband juice box. Apparently she can unwrap the straw and poke it into the hole now herself. Scott couldn't do that until, like, last month. (Anyone have any tips on how to keep a toddler out of a pantry with double doors but the kind that latch up at the top? All the lock type things I find for child-proofing won't fit around full size door knobs, but the regular knob ones are worthless since these knobs are just for pulling, not turning. The rope set up we've tried fails on so many levels. It's hideous AND cumbersome. So cumbersome that I never remembered to re-weave the intricate knot around the knobs and therefore just stopped using it.)
Second of all, Scott learned to pedal a tricycle. Yes, he is in Kindergarten. He's been a bit of a late bloomer in this department. Up until yesterday, he just didn't care to do it enough to bother. Every time I would coax him onto a tricycle, he would try for a second and then give up because it wasn't instantly easy. But Claire and the neighbors were having bicycle races up and down the street and he figured out he would never keep up on his scooter. Yay for peer pressure!!! So he was determined to head down the path towards mastering the bicycle. He did great on the tricycle, so we tried putting him on his bicycle with training wheels, but that resulted in a freak out of epic proportions because it was "TOO HARD!!!" Oh well, at least my 5 year old can finally pedal a tricycle a mere month or so after my 2 year old figured it out!
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