Yesterday was a really big day!
The kids do a lot of biking here. Thanks to a handful of loving friends, our kids are WELL situated with bikes both at the lake and at home. Everyone loves having lake bikes. That being said, Solly doesn’t care for risk taking, really, and will sooner pick up and carry his bike than ride it 🤦♀️ His confidence grows sooooo slowly, so while we’re here, he tends to gravitate towards Waverly’s balance bike before his own training wheels bike. We’ve explained to him roughly a billion times that his bike without training wheels would be very much like a balance bike. Nothing doing.
Until yesterday! Our of nowhere, after supper, Solly requested his training wheels off. He had NOT been biking before he asked. Nope. It just came to mind. Brady and I were super surprised and asked if he meant now, or at home.
“Now, at the lake,” Solly decided.
So it was time!! We didn’t give him the chance to change his mind, haha!
His very first run, he GOT it!!!
Now he is a VERY loud guy, his volume knob always cranked to 11, and he just laughed and yelled and freaked out pretty much the entire time. He felt BIG the whole time, from excitement to fear to victory to nerves and back again. He didn’t wipe out even once!!!
I am SO impressed with how brave Solomon was and how quickly he picked up on his bike! There is still practice to be done, but he is WELL on his way! Amazing job, Solly boy!!! 🚲