Recorded with my iPhone, I caught the Blue Buddha rockin' some new tricks-

Moving up Seventh Ave. Mr. Blue finds the stoke on his Gremmie 'Round Pin' wherever he can.

Milo and I rode our Gremmie Skateboards to the park today without incident. Not like yesterday when we skated to the Apple Store on 14th Street and I spilled when a fork-lift surprisingly came at me from the lumber yard on the corner of 15th Street and 9th Avenue- O.K. I freaked and sat back, my skateboard spit out from underneath me and shot west on 15th Street only to be stopped by a woman in her late sixties. She toed me my board shaking her head and saying; "everybody's falling today, you're the third person I've seen fall". I didn't know if she meant on skateboards or out of the sky, or what, but I embarrassingly took my wheels and got back on that horse. Milo of course had stopped well back watching this fiasco. So when I got back to him I asked him if I looked whack; he nodded.

Last Saturday Milo got a new skateboard and a week later he's starting to find his way around his new rig! He really wants to go to the new skate park at Chelsea piers, but I told him he needs to find his way-
now all he wants to do is practice; so he can drop-in with the big boys.

Sam Fuller totally hits it with this short video clip he made of Milo! Checkout Sam's other works here.

I love this picture Milo took of me at Cafe Grumpy-

Milo and I tossing the Frisbee on New Years Eve day-

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL-Y'ALL, Love Milo, Charles and Rebecca

I love this picture Rebecca took this afternoon!

With the strength and fury of a human hurricane, a Witch was ribbonized by an unknown Ninja on our stoop this evening around 5:00 p.m. Onlookers were horrified by the sheer amount of wind generated by the awesome speed and force of the lone assailant-

Congratulations Mommy/Rebecca!!
Super Tough Rebecca finished the Nike Women's Marathon yesterday in San Francisco and we are very proud of her strength and resolve. Go Mommy, Go Mommy, Go Mommy, Go Becca, Yeah! Go Becca, yeah! Go Mommy!!!

The Tooth Fairy Cometh-

It's hard for me to believe he's smiling at all after several shots of Novocain and a manual extraction of both of his front teeth. I was the one wincing and squirming and I was only watching! but Mr. Roughy Tough: no, not once.

Onward and upward for our boy Milo. After spending most of the summer finding his balance (at the expense of his parents sanity), he finally returned to his old self for the last few weeks of summer- just in time to share it with others.

What a great end to a grueling summer! The first seven days of our vacation we spent with our friends and family in California.

We also spent some hours with various sea critters.

And Milo got a moment or two with his favorite critter; New Bear-

Then we were off to Montauk for five days of pure relaxation-

On one of our westside bike path journeys.

About three weeks ago Milo got his brand new 7-speed bike, and boy was he stoked! We went to a nearby deserted handball court and Milo took his first few laps on the new rig; it went fairly well as you can see, though he also got his first serious case of road rash.
These days Milo and I ride over to the west-side highway bike path and have some nice rides. A couple of times during our recent rides Milo looked back over his shoulder and shouted "this is so much fun papa!" Yep Milo it sure is!

I promised myself and Milo we'd learn three things this summer 1) learn to ride a two-wheel bike. 2) learn to tie shoelaces 3) learn to tell time.
Last summer we made an attempt at the bike, but it was ill fated, since I tried to teach him on our narrow block teeming with pedestrians. Results: disastrous. Fast forward to yesterday, moving the training grounds to a less congested park a few blocks away-
Results: Success!

Within ten minutes Milo had veered off the track and was making laps around the flag pole through the water sprinklers for the sun drenched tots and up and around the jungle gym, then back to the path laughing like crazy with the freedom that two wheels bring.

During yesterday's early evening massive lightning and thunder storm, Milo couldn't wait to get out in it. Cautious parents that we are kept him waiting until the lightning was a little further off-

The storm finally stopped so we could venture out for our Sunday dinner-

There really was quite a nice feel to our neighborhood just after the rain-

The rain began again just as we made it back to our apartment, of course Mr. Blue wanted to romp; "just a few minutes more, please mom".

Milo's been having a tough time since the last few days of kindergarten. Apparently this transition (between kindergaten and first grade) is difficult for some, and it's definitely been for our little Blue; but he has had some bright moments....

especially his week long visit with grandpa and the nights finishing with fireworks-

and watching the cloud he created with the sparklers smoke move south-

whirling the sparklers on the night of the fourth of July was pretty darn cool-

then there's vanilla-chocolate swirl softserve dipped in chocolate that seems to always elevate one's mood-

We're hoping that Milo gets used to his new summer schedule soon and makes new friends at gymnastics camp, then finds peace with all these big changes. I'm fairly sure he will!