I’ve been working on a pumptrack (sort of like a mini bmx bike track) at my house in Paso Robles for the past couple of months and finally finished it the day before it started raining. It would ruin it to be ridden while wet so after all that work all I can do is make sure the water is draining well and wait, bummer! Oh well, at least I got one day or riding!
Caiden wanted to help me do some trenching today but I think he really just wanted to stomp through the mud! We went out just after it stopped raining and he just ran back and forth, falling several times. He ended up getting really cold so I had to toss him in the bath! lol, it’s great to be a kid!

Caiden has been riding a bike with training wheels since he was 2 1/2 so about 2 months ago we decided to go for no training wheels (he’s 3 years old now). He loves riding his bike with me and tries things (like going down big hills) that really surprise me! I got him real excited about trying no training wheels as on a previous attempt he got frustrated because he is used to riding all over with no effort but without the training wheels he didn’t have that mobility. We went over to a nice slight downhill lawn and we tried for a few minutes. I put my hand on the small of his back and he gave it a shot. The key is for me to keep him moving but not to hold him up or else he doesn’t learn balance. The lawn was too hard to roll on so we went to a quiet parking lot and he picked it up in no time! Pretty impressive I think
This bike is his reward for the hard work. I’m in the process of building a BMX track for both of us along with jumps (big for me, small for him). He’s jumping off curbs and (as long as he’s wearing pads) doesn’t mind crashing too much lol
Oh, and 80’s fans just got to love the glasses in this pic!

Getting back to actual photography for a second, look for a bunch of posts in the next week as I’ve had some awesome shoots in Texas, Carmel, San Francisco and Santa Barbara. Also, I will be in Las Vegas for a week in February so if you want to do your engagement session or day after session out there let me know, it’s an amazing city to shoot in!

So some of you think it’s really fun to give me, as a photographer, a hard time about not getting many pictures up right away! Explanations about how the film is at the lab and will be back Thursday just don’t seem to appease you so here you go, all the baby Kyla pictures you can handle! I will still post up the stuff from our time in the hospital as soon as it gets here. These are just some quick pics from bath-time.