Today John Paul conquered the bicycle -- we asked him if he wanted to try riding without his training wheels and he reluctantly assented. I took them off, he got on, and he's been tooling around almost nonstop since.

Mojo tried too, but it only took him a few tries before he demanded that his traning wheels be put back on. Not content to simply witness his brother's success he spent much of the afternoon trying to ram his bike into John Paul's. So now he's here in the house with me while John Paul is still out training for the Giro d'Italia.