Learning to ride a 2 wheeler

Jessica has been trying to get her Dad to take off the training wheels off her bike all summer long. He was going to do it on his vacation in the middle of July but due to the basement flooding he never got it done. Jessica was really upset, but he promised that while he was off  when  the baby was born, he would take her to the church parking lot and teach her to ride a 2 wheeler bike. He was busy with so many other projects with the basement that it almost didn't happen again. On August 6th he finally got time to take her, Jessie was so excited. We thought we could just teach Ky at the same time but she wanted nothing to do with it, but Matt said he would learn, he is definitely not ready for that.
When they got the the church, we noticed that Jessica was to big for her bike and that she had a hard time trying to move the handlebars due to her knees hitting them. It only took her a couple of tries before she was mostly riding on her own, she even figured out how to start out on her own, she was so proud of herself, she had to tell everyone.
Ky and Matt had a blast just riding there bikes in a big open space, not just the little deck at home. Matt really learned to peddle fast and tried to crash a couple of times going down the sidewalk. Thank goodness Dad was watching and could stop him.
Everyone had a great time together getting some exercise and enjoying 90 degree heat on the blacktop.

Matthew the crazy bike rider

Look at me go

Ky, just full of smiles

Jessica starting out on her own

Introducing Aleeya Gracie Klingler

Aleeya Gracie Klingler
9 days old

July 26, 2010 was the day I was scheduled to be induced into labor, because once again I developed pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH). I was at home taking it easy the last 2 weeks to get me to 38 weeks.

 We had to be to the hospital by 7 am.  When they hooked me up to the heart monitor, the first thing that Marie, the nurse, said was "sounds like a GIRL". Delwyn told her no it was a boy. She made a point the rest of the day calling the baby a her and smiling at Delwyn, just to tease him.  They got my iv going and the pitocin started by around 8:30. I new it was going to be a long labor, but hoped it wouldn't be 20 1/2 hours like Matthew.  Labor progressed slowly just as I feared, by1:30 in the afternoon I was only dilated to 3 cm, and the baby was already having some slowing of the heart rate with contraction. This really worried  poor Daddy.

When Dr Christensen came into check me around 5:30, I was dilated to 8 cm. He commented that he thought we would have a baby by the time he finished assisting with a c-section. My thought was I don't think so. The nurse started to get everything ready and told me to tell her when I started to feel pressure.
At 6 pm I felt a little pressure so I told Marie, she checked me and said I was just about dilated completely and that I should be ready by the time the c-section was done, and she went to tell Dr C. When she came back into the room, I was having a lot of pressure and was ready to deliver. She went and pulled Dr C. out of the c-section to deliver the baby. After about 5 pushes the head was out and sure enough the cord was wrapped around her neck so tight that Dr C had to cut it to get it off. They layed the baby on my abdomen and I saw  it was a beautiful baby girl, not the little boy everyone had wanted, but it didn't matter she was healthy.  Marie just said told you it was a girl.

Aleeya Gracie Klingler was born at 1818 or 6:18 pm on July 26, 2010. She weighed in a a big 6# 10 oz, and was 20 inches long.  She looked just like all the other kids.

Aleeya 2 hours old, my first picture.