Skull Tyler

Tyler has progressed from tattoos on the arm to face painting at last !!!

Check this one out !!

Another Chuck E Cheese birthday

After Siobhan's party and a quick nap, we were off to our 2nd birthday party of the day. It was one of Tyler's classmates and they had it at the kids' favorite place - Chuck E Cheese(ugh!!).

Anyways, Tyler seemed to really enjoy hanging out with the boys from his class and most of them being boys were having lots of fun running around and being all goofy! Cody also finally seem to finally learn to enjoy all the rides and games and had a blast!

The boys eating pizzas at Chuck E Cheese

Tyler finding the Chuck E Cheese songs and moves funn!

Only took Cody 3 trips to learn to have a good time!!

They hogged this ride for a LOOOONNGG time!! 

Siobhan's cake

Siobhan turns 2 this week and i promised that i'd make her birthday cake. Hish informed me that Siobhan likes lemon cake, so lemon cake with fruits was what she got.

As i was travelling the whole week, i did not have time to prepare ahead of time, so i recruited Hish to help me out. She is an excellent source of inspiration and an awesome sculptor with fondant. I suspect she is also there to make sure that Siobhan got the best cake, because nothing but the best is good enough for Hish's niece!! :)

But you can't rush perfection, so we were up till 4:30 am! So, again, i promise to work on the timing!!!

Siobhan's Curious George cake

Watching Siobhan so into her cake sure made our hard work worth while! :)

p.s. Everything on the cake is edible except for the candle and the stuffed toy! And that is NOT a real banana!!

Tyler crashes at Bradburn Triathlon

After the last few successful triathlons, we've been training Tyler to ride without training wheels with the hope of improving his biking time even more  he's been making great progress on the bike. Alan even bought him a new bike. The only problem we saw with his biking was his constant over correcting.

Anyways, the Bradburn Triathlon is finally here and Tyler was feeling quite confident. He had a really awesome start by speeding off on his bike. But unfortunately half way thru his cycling course, he crashed and lost all his lead. But with Alan's urging, he climbed back on his bike and continued with his race bleeding knee and all.

He even managed to pass a few people during running and did a good swim across the width and still beat Mateo by about a minute!

Anyways, we were really proud of him for finishing the race even after the crash! :)

All of us came to support Tyler

Tyler and Mateo getting ready at the starting line

Our little brave triathlete!!

After the race was done, Tyler and Mateo spent quite a bit of time swimming around the swimming pool. It was really nice to see Tyler so confident in deep water! :) Next year, hopefully Cody will be able to compete also!!

Rogers River Run 5K - Fastest time this year

This is a run that I try and do every year and last time I completed it in 23:10.  I ran it much faster this year, and also managed to have much better splits (6:42, 6:56, 7:06) to finish in 21:21, but strangely enough still finished in roughly the same place 56 (3rd in my age category).

This year I did see the balloons take off, thought that three bathrooms for 550 people probably wasn't enough and was surprised they 'ran out of T-Shirts' so I had to take an XL, which truly is XL.

Broke the seven minute barrier

PR on Expresso Speedway

Expresso Speedway is a 1 mile bike ride that is a killer.  It should be easy, you just ride for 1 mile, but all sorts of factors come into play, such as what gear, stand up/sit down.  How much power can you deliver before you have to slow down, bike inertia and so on..

It is possible to complete this ride in 2 minutes using the Expresso bikes. I on the other hand seem to have a brick wall of 2 minutes and 28 seconds.  I come close to this on many occasions but it has taken almost a year and 20 times riding this course to get my time down to 2 minutes and 27 seconds !!

Think that I need to video the ride, and see what is optimal for me in terms of gears and positioning to try and get that number down. For sure I can do the first half mile in around 1 minute, it is the second half where I slow down..

New PR by 1 second

Tyler does 2 laps of the lake

Tyler has been practicing nearly every day on his bike in preparation for his next Triathlon and although not 100% stable he did manage two laps of the lake today averaging 5 mph and hitting a maximum of 10.3 mph !!  Technically he did three as he took a break on the swings then did another lap.

Checking out the bike !!

Two laps and more !!