Sleepy Sam & Fat Tire Ale

Sam has taught himself how to roll over and is now sleeping on his stomach. This is from this morning when he was taking his morning nap after being up for about 20 minutes. He was alseep on Mom and Dads bed.

Here is a new beer that I have tried recently. It is Fat Tire Amber Ale from the New Belgium brewery in Fort Collins, Colorado. It seems that stores around here started carrying it,

This is a good session beer, with a nice flavor, and very smooth. It is not terribly hoppy which is different from a lot of the beers that I have been drinking lately. In other words, it is a nice beer to drink cold in the summer.

Plus how could it not be good with a bike on the can.

Sam and Father's Day Ride

Yesterday was a first for me, as I got to celebrate Fathers Day as a father for the first time. It was great to be able to do that of course, especially with as great a kid as Sam is.

After a day of running lots of errands, Kate and Sam went to knitting, and I went for a long bike ride. The weather here the last two weeks has actually been pretty awful heat wise. It feels like this is the hottest it has gotten in June since I moved down here to the Ohio Valley nearly a decade ago. Yesterday was near 90 degrees and extremely humid, so while riding was still not terrible, if you stopped even for a minute or two, it hot quite uncomfortable.

The ride ended up being about 32 miles, and I did get to ride some of the roads in the area that I liked a lot.



But, enough about my silly ride, here are some new videos of Sam. The first is from his first dip in the little pool that we bought for him. He certainly like it more than putting his toes in Lake Michigan, but I still think that I was not completely sold on the idea of a pool.

The other is posted at Kate's request and shows that Sam is already getting tired of being filmed by his parents.

Miscellaneous

It has been awhile since I posted anything, so I thought that I would rectify that. We had a wonderful time last week when Grandma came down to take care of Sam, while his other Grandparents were in Florida. Even with all of the compliments that his mom and grandma gave him, Sam is still not certain that he really likes his leg warmers (which I can understand). He just keeps growing and changing on a daily basis and continues to amaze Kate and I.

We had an unfortunate accident on Monday night, when I decided to take Sam for a short ride in his bugger. I hooked up the trailer to the Paramount and off we went. I was just wearing my regular shoes and kept hitting my foot on the bugger hitch. Not really looking back, I tried to push the hitch down a little so that my foot would not hit it anymore. Next thing I know, the rear wheel locked up and I was struggling to pull my foot out of the pedal before I fell over. I did get the bike stopped safely, and got off it to look at what had happened, and as you can see from the pictures, it was not a pretty site. The bugger hitch had gotten caught in the rear spokes and the force of the wheel spinning bent the spokes in such a way that they pulled the rim all out of whack, its shape now resembles a potatoe chip. but at least the hub is still good. So, now I have to figure out if I think that I can rebuild these wheels (with differen rims).

Finally here is one days worth of rasberries that I picked this morning and evening. Thanks to the nuclear rich soil we seem to have around here, the rasberry bushes that we planted 2 years ago, are now nearly 7 feet tall and have tons of fruit on them. We just have to keep an eye on the birds so that they don't get too many of the berries.

This is nothing like a post about a cute baby, but it's the best I can do at the moment. Here is the new limited edition Yebisu beer for 2009. From the can: "This limited version of Yebisu Beer has been given longer lagering time for rich, mellow flavor and satisfying smoothness." To be honest, I find it a bit more bracing than regular Yebisu (or my favorite Yebisu: The Hop). It comes in a 4 pack for about 1000 yen. I had the fourth today and it tasted the best of the four.

Sam's First Bike Ride

Sam got to go on his first bike ride yesterday in his new buggers, thanks to the amazing shipping of FedEx. On Friday, Kate emailed me at work to say that she had found a great deal on a bugger from Nashbar (we had been in the market for one since the old one from Mom and Dad had proven to be too worn out), we decided to get it. Kate ordered it on Friday around noon, and then yesterday morning after she had left for work (Sam and I were still asleep), I hear this banging on our front door and see a FedEx truck out front, and low and behold it was the bugger. The thing had shipped in less than 24 hours, we have no idea how it came so fast, especially since it was an oversized package. But anyway, enough about that, even if it remains a mystery about how it got here so fast.

So to the actually important thing, Sam's first bike ride. Even though Sam was really excited to go for a ride ;), we waited till Kate got home to go. As you can see, his car seat fits nicely inside the bugger, and he gets to sit facing forward instead of backwards like in a car.

Our actual ride was pretty short, we just wanted to test it out. We just did about a mile and half loop here in town, and Sam was pretty much totally unimpressed the whole time, though he did not scream like his Aunt Britta used to when she was in the bugger. We can't wait to try it on a longer ride, but just have to find some places that are safe to ride with a baby bugger around here.

Sam's Bouncy Seat

Sam has discovered his bouncy seat.

New Pictures

This is the newest picture of Sam and his Mom from earlier in the week. Sam was wearing his elephant baseball outfit.

Sam is surveying his new domain after going to storytime at LFPL. He says he wants to have an office like this one day, but that he wants the air conditioning to work in his.

And this is just a picture of a field I passed on my way from Charlestown to Sellersburg yesterday during lunch (okay, so I took the back roads.