Lexi's teacher
decided to reward their good behavior by letting the whole class have a hat day
today. As you can see, Lexi went with her cowgirl hat.
The other interesting thing about these pictures is the
big band aid on her neck. Sometimes band aids are an indication of an
interesting story. This one happens to
be hiding/healing her first bike injury.
Yesterday evening, I took the kids out to the water park parking lot so
Lexi could practice riding her bike. At
one point, Jordan for some unknown reason got off of his bike and darted right
in front of her. She swerved to miss him
and even recovered only to turn her head back to yell at him, which caused her
to crash into a little rock wall. As she
was going down, her handle bar flipped up and jabbed her neck.
Perhaps, this is
a little lesson for her in letting things go or handling things calmly. Of course, this incident upset her and through
tears she declared that riding a bike was dangerous. I made her get right back on and ride until
the complaining was over. Maybe that
sounds harsh with her neck all swore, but I kept thinking about all those years
of hearing that when you get bucked off of a horse, you climb right back
on. Fortunately, she doesn't seem at all traumatized by yesterday's event or my few moments of tough love.
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