Today (despite the date on the picture saying it's 2004!) Nathan’s school held a bike-a-thon with the money they raised going to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF). Nathan raised a total of $133, $16 of it being his own money, which for a four year old is quite a bit. I was proud of him for donating so much of his own money. He has three piggy banks, one marked "spend", one marked "save" and one marked "donate". We divvy the money up between the banks when he puts money in, and probably about 1/10th or so goes into the "donate" bank. He decided he not only wanted to donate what was in there, but also what was in his "save" bank, so we did. Thank you to everyone who sponsored him.
Since it was a rainy day they didn’t get to ride outside. And the gym was being set up for a wedding reception tomorrow, so they had to go down the hall, around the foyer, back down the hall, around the toy room and back down the hall. It was so cute seeing thirteen 4 and 5 year old’s riding their bikes. Most of them had non-stop grins on their faces, except for one little girl who looked scared to death. They rode for about half an hour and there were very few crashes, and no injuries! Nathan did run into the wall in the hallway twice though.
If you asked me 6 months ago what Cystic Fibrosis was, I couldn’t have given you an answer, but I’ve started following a blog about a lady about my age that has it. It is an amazing story and definitely worth checking out, in fact she just got a lung transplant yesterday!
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