A Great Effort

Saturday morning we had to go and pick up our triathlon race packets for Sundays race. I knew there was a kids triathlon but I hadn't really mentioned it to the kids. I put stuff in the car for them with the thought that if they wanted to do it we would be prepared. I was pretty sure Geremu would want to do it since every time we finish a race he usually ends up mad at us because "You no let me do it". I wasn't really sure what to expect from Cullen.

As soon as I mentioned the triathlon to the boys Geremu said he wanted to do it. Cullen on the other hand was a little hesitant. He told us he was afraid of the bike, he doesn't really like biking around other kids. Honestly I don't blame him, every time he gets on his bike his brother tries to play chicken with him. We really didn't want to push it, I was afraid that if I talked him into doing it and he hated it that he would never want to do anything like it again. So Geremu decided to go for it while Cullen decided to cheer his brother on.

Here Geremu is before the race. We spent a bit of time explaining to him what he had to do so he knew what to do.

Here is a shot of Geremu getting pumped up for his race... As you can see he could hardly wait for the show to get started:)

He started with the swim, the water wasn't too deep and he pretty much just followed the lead of the other kids.We were able to stay with Geremu and help him through the transitions. Once Geremu was out of the water we got his shoes, shirt and bike helmet on him and headed out for the bike. Geremu loves to bike so off he went...

He finished up with the run. As he was coming into the finish line the announcer said, "Put your hands in the air for Geremu". Geremu came to a dead stop (before the finish line) and put his hands up in the air- I wish Nick would have gotten a picture of it, it was pretty funny.

Cullen greeted Geremu at the finish and said to him, "You should be so proud of yourself Geremu!" It was so stinkin' cute, Cullen was SO proud of Geremu. I just love the below picture, Geremu totally looks up to Cullen and Cullen couldn't be more proud to have a brother like Geremu.After Cullen saw how spread out the kids were during the bike portion Cullen has decided that he will continue to practice biking and next year he wants to try the race.

We were just headed over to grab our race packets for the following day when we heard Geremu's name being announced. So we headed over to where everyone was gathered...

Only to find out that our little guy had taken 2nd place. He totally did not understand what was going on when they made him come up for his award and get his picture taken. But after we got away from the crowd and Cullen kept on "graduating" Geremu (Cullen thinks congratulations and graduation is the same thing- that's a whole other story) Geremu started to smile about it all. I could not be more proud of my two boys. Seriously, how did we get so lucky to call Cullen and Geremu our own?