Bike ride

Van can bike around the neighborhood by himself now. I wait in the driveway and sometimes I time him. He's done it a few times in the last month so I feel pretty comfortable with it. Today he wanted to try a new route and drop books off at our neighborhood book box. I sent him with my cell phone and a backpack full of books and I told him to call me if he got lost.

He called about 1 minute after he left the house.
He chatted for a while, saying things were great, they were good in fact, they were perfect. He was just checking in. But if I wanted, I could come along.

Me: "Sure I'll come along, just come back home and get me"
Van: "Well I can't quite remember which way to go."
Me: "Ok hold tight, I'll come get you"

So I biked out to meet him and we went to the book box together.

Van told me biking low like this makes him go faster. "Hey maybe I'll try it on the uphills" he says.

Happy face.

Mad face.

"let me see the mad one!" he says. He's a fun man.