So there this At Home Dad (me) was, at the elementary school dropping my son off at Kindergarten after riding our bikes to school as we always do. I was standing near the flagpole which I lock his bike to school which is near the closest in bike rack that is always full by the time we get there; it is not like we need to lock his bike up as most of the other bikes are just sitting there unlocked with helmets hanging, I am just teaching him responsibility and how to care for things he truly cherishes.

Anyway, I was standing there checking the compression on my front shocks and thinking what a great day for a ride and where to go on my ride seeing how I just broke my RD mountain bike out for the snow season and let my K2 Dad cruiser bike have the winter off and I heard it, pssssst. Strange I thought, that sounds just like air escaping I thought as I looked around for the culprit thinking somebody is going to be bummed after school when they find a flat tire and then I smelled it!

You know the rubber like smell air has after it has spent time inside an inner tube? My shocks just got squishier when I noticed the my front tire was squishy; only it did not take me till after school to be bummed as I just got bummed in the here and now, that flat was mine! I now had to walk and push my bike home, all .62 miles, oh well it was a beautiful morning for a walk and I was going to do a ride anyway so off I went. I had a few minutes to plan my strategy for the day and how to get to Target to get not 1 but two inner tubes, yes I will pack a spare from now on while thinking I was oh so luckily to be within .75 miles of home when the dreaded pssssst happened and I knew it was only a matter of time before it happened.

I log near a thousand miles most summers and never had a pssssst till last summer when my rear tire decided rebel on the way home from the pool a ¼ mile from the house!

I learned my lesson this time as I won’t be so lucky next time it happens, 2 summers, 2 flast and both were within .75 miles of home!

Everytime this happens in my day it is just too cool.  We’ve come along way in five years, my little man!  And I thought pulling you in the Burley was great, then you could stop and start on two wheels and then things got really good!

Not to brag or anything, but seing the guy do things that older neighborhood kids have not mastered yet like swimmimg in the big boy pool for real, not just splashing in the baby pool makes me just a little prideful (that’s MY boy), then there is racing me on our bikes to and from the local shopping stripette are just some of the things my 5 and a half, 1/2 year old can do.

I wonder, did he drink milk with his hot lunch, could he even open his milk at lunch?

This morning began early like all other mornings by 07:15 in the AM and as always I was up at 6ish getting some of my cardio workout(s) along with my Bowflex session out of the way.

This morning my son was different, he didn’t call me to his room to play our “where is that guy” game with him lying hidden under the blankets then me lying on those blankets to “find” him. Instead he got up by himself and put his new baggy black skateboard jeans on with his green golf shirt, socks and his new Sketchers, then he headed down for a quick breakfast and off to school. His PM Kindergarten didn’t start till 10:40 this morning but he was ready to go now, 3 hours early. So in and outside he went, back and forth till 9 when I let him go to Sierras’ house to play.  I went to get him a 10:10 so we could ride our bikes to school and find a rack spot. Sierra had to give him a hug when he left (geez girls were his words) and with that done I got him to go to the bathroom and then strap his pack on for our 7 minute pedal.

On the way there on the bike path, I tried to snap a photo of him riding his bike as I followed behind but my newly recharged batteries were dead, oh no! Good thing I uploaded all my camera phone photos and was able to use it instead, but not while riding! You can see our morning on my 365. Anyway his little friend Brooke from our Baseball team who is in his class was sure glad to see him and made sure when they got inside his pack was next to hers. Her mom said she was also ready first thing this morning as we waited in the line of kids formed outside by the teacher assistants.

Once inside we had to go to the library where the vice principal welcomed both Kindergarten classes after the teachers did a bunch of micro organization of students and their belongings. After the welcoming us parents were invited to the boo hoo coffee meet and greet/weak mom support session in the cafeteria. There were no sniffles on my part as I explained to Brook’s mom that we had done day camp the last three weeks, so if anything, let’s go have a celebratory shot and a beer but instead I ducked out and commenced on a short bike ride, got home did 31 minutes more of cardio and more Bowflex before lunch.

Had lunch and commenced to inputting this and my 365. Time to bike to the grocery so I can restock my breakfast vitals.