No Training Wheels!

Yesterday we adjusted Dylan's training wheels to let him practice his balance while riding up and down the street for a bit before it rained.  Today was the 1st day we took off Dylan's training wheels to let him ride by himself.  He got the hang of it in about 15 minutes!  (See the video below.)  I was really impressed with him.  He still needs a bit of help getting started and some of his dismounts are a bit precarious, but he's got it.  BTW, I had him wear long pants, a long shirt, and "racing gloves" despite the warm weather because I had visions of repeated falls and wanted to avoid picking rocks out of cuts.  Turns out he didn't need all that.  No major falls and no tears...on day 1, at least.  Yippee!

 

  Pretty confident as he was making goofy faces:

 

Video of Dylan riding by himself down the street:

 Not to be left out, Colton is learning how to "glide" on his balance bike:

Video of Colton "gliding" on his balance bike:

I see a lot of bike riding in our future!

Easter in Fort Worth

Easter celebrations kicked off in Ms. Tiffany's preschool class.  She is so sweet to include Colton as an honorary student, allowing Dylan to make bunny ears for him and get him a "carrot" snack:

Dylan and Tommy are on the same soccer team, that Autrey and Matt are coaching every Saturday, we stayed here for Easter and Doug and Mona drove up from Houston.  (Dylan is very much a rookie player, but he scored his 1st goal today!)  After the 2nd session of Conference we had an Easter egg hunt because we knew it would be rainy and chilly on Sunday.  Dylan was not about to hold still for a picture with eggs all around, but Colt would:  

 

With their filled baskets in front of the awesome play set the Duke men finally finished assembling for Tommy and Tyler.  Next time Santa should leave his elves to put it together: 

Allyson and I teamed up to make a traditional Easter dinner.  It was so good.  And the leftover ham and pineapple is going to make for a fantastic pizza for dinner tonight.  The boys loved the cookie nests for dessert: 

Easter pictures in our matching outfits.  It was a feat of shopping last weekend with Mona and Allyson to make it happen.  Totally worth it:

Mimi and Papa with the boys:

 You'd never know Allyson is due May 18th:

 Cute boys: 

 Workin' the pockets:

Brothers:

 Other brothers:

  So crazy, yet so cute:

 Happy Easter!