We pulled the kids bikes down this weekend for the first time this season! They were SO excited! Well, I should say, some were more excited than others 😉 We’ll get to that.
Being that all of our kids are little, we have a variety of weird bikes over here, haha! Dekker has a lightening McQueen bike that he got for his birthday a couple of years ago. It still works for him. He’s still rocking training wheels, but hopefully not for too much longer. Laela has a bike we got for free off of a local buy and sell last year. Its a bit tall for her still, but it works. We took the pedals off of it so she could rock it as a balance bike. We got Rowan a legit balance bike for Christmas from, once again, a local buy and sell page. I’ve started to see the merit in balance bikes, though I didn’t always, but they are SO expensive! This one was $15. Boom! That leaves Solly on the trike. So it should all work out. That was the idea, anyway.
Come to find out, the whole crew isn’t in full agreement. Surprised? Nope.
Dekker still likes his bike very much, and is eager to lose the training wheels, but as isn’t surprising, he is quite nervous about the learning process. Its still pretty muddy out but soon we’ll probably take him out on the grass at the playground so he can feel a bit safer. Brady ran him up and down the street a few times, and he’s working on gliding his bike, like a balance bike.
Laela is still pretty nervous of her bike, even as a balance bike, but she understands the concept pretty well. She would, however, far rather use Rowan’s balance bike, I assume because its lower to the ground.
This wasn’t a bad plan because Rowan was NOT interested in his bike. He wanted the trike. And conveniently, his helmet doesn’t fit anymore, so he couldn’t really bike anyway! He happily ran up and down the side of the road, waving a pinwheel around. Success.
Solly got the coveted trike, and he actually did WAY better than I expected! He isn’t strong enough to propel it himself yet, but he was completely happy to be on it! He held the handlebars and let us push him around. If we’d remind him, he’d put his feet not he pedals. He was FULL of smiles, even in the crazy wind. And luckily, Rowan’s helmet fit him! So, boom! He’s a pretty cute R2D2 if you ask me!
Biking ended when a couple of the kids started breaking down.
Learning to ride a two wheeler is tough stuff.
With that, my ears have been bugging me through most of this pregnancy (a weird new symptom this time around) and the wind did NOT help, so I came inside, expecting a least a few to follow. But nope. They’re all hanging out in the garage doing who knows what with Brady, and I’m getting some planning and blogging on!
Our system out here is far from perfect, but its just day one 🙂 There will be MANY more days to bike and play outside. Hopefully less windy days. This was a pretty cute start, if you ask me! Now if only we could acquire an extra trike or something, to please the masses. I suppose no one can please everyone, right??