Monday, May 08, 2006
Heelie Boy!
Heelies are pretty amazing shoes. There is no shortage of them around any school in the city. I’m sure if someone from fifty years ago managed to construct a time machine, travel to current day and back, they would be telling tales of how the children of the future have learned to magically float instead of walking.
Parker has become pretty good on the heelies. This was not the case in the beginning. Quite a few drops on his tea kettle represented the beginning of his heelie career.
But now I can’t get the kid to stop. Who needs a running start or a slightly downgrade hill when a pack-horse like dad is around. “Pull me dad” he’ll yell.
His cut-off factor has gone up incrementally with the heelies as well. As long as he has momentum and a straight line, it matters not who is in his way. We’re working on fixing that one.
The other day we picked up his grandma at the airport. He was quick to discover one of the best heelie-straight-aways yet, the pedway from the parking garage over to the airport. As he whizzed by, heading straight for the roadway, my heart gave way, but the kid had mastered the curving stop. Lighten up dad said the look of his sly-grin face.
“Ahhh to heelie with it!”
Parker has become pretty good on the heelies. This was not the case in the beginning. Quite a few drops on his tea kettle represented the beginning of his heelie career.
But now I can’t get the kid to stop. Who needs a running start or a slightly downgrade hill when a pack-horse like dad is around. “Pull me dad” he’ll yell.
His cut-off factor has gone up incrementally with the heelies as well. As long as he has momentum and a straight line, it matters not who is in his way. We’re working on fixing that one.
The other day we picked up his grandma at the airport. He was quick to discover one of the best heelie-straight-aways yet, the pedway from the parking garage over to the airport. As he whizzed by, heading straight for the roadway, my heart gave way, but the kid had mastered the curving stop. Lighten up dad said the look of his sly-grin face.
“Ahhh to heelie with it!”
