Scooters Among Us (12.26.11)

The kids received a pair of electric scooters from their grandparents for Christmas this year.  It's quite a gift considering that we vowed to never give the kids forms of electric transportation when they could easily ride their own bikes or scooters.  [Let's not forget the time that Lloyd found the go-cart on the curb and restored it to almost mint condition (the kids still ride that in Martin); or the electric skateboard pulled from the trash that the neighborhood boys successfully rebuilt.]  Let's be honest; vows to remain pure to our self-powered bikes just didn't survive.  Speaking of surviving, you'll be happy to know that my maiden voyage was spent with Grayson, looking at neighborhood Christmas lights.