Befrazzled How To Guide to a Wheel-less Summer

****Breaking news alert****
It’s officialy, everyone in my family can ride a bike on two wheels. And, in typical 2nd child fashion, I have no video or pictures of it. On the other hand, I was too busy watching and cheering for baby girl to bother about filming/taping the Big Event. Her dad is officially dog tired from running alongside her.
Our method is as follows:
1.) Magic Bike
2.) Unfinished sidewalks
That’s right, we have a little blue bike that my brother-in-law gave to my son some X-mases ago. They’ve both kind of outgrown it so we took of the training wheels and have trained both kids on it. I might consider renting out said magic bike if anyone’s interested. It’s magic! Next, we let ‘em ride on the sidewalk. It’s unfinished, so the kids go a stretch and then ride off into the safe, soft grass. After 2 days, she veered toward the driveway and off she was down the road.
There will be band-aids this summer. Lots and lots of bandaids.

Way to go! Big milestones, very big!
Comment by Cheryl — May 19, 2008 @ 9:00 am
Seriously though, I have to run to the store and get more bandaids tonight.
Comment by Robin — May 19, 2008 @ 2:47 pm
and knee pads, and a mouth guard… although if she hasn’t lost any of those baby teeth… (My husband knocked out his top 2 front PERMANENT teeth in an over-the-handle-bars moment when he was 8).
All kidding aside, that’s wonderful. Independence (for you AND her!).
Comment by phyllis — May 19, 2008 @ 6:16 pm