One of the benefits of having Izzy and Auri over today was that Izzy brought her bike…without training wheels. Emma wanted to try her bike and I sort of put her off. I went inside and pretty soon she came running inside telling me to come watch. Amazingly, she was riding Izzy’s bike all by herself! Hooray for Emma!
As soon as Lennard got home Emma had him in the garage taking off the training wheels on her bike. Her bike is quite a bit bigger and heavier than Izzy’s so she’s bit more wobbly, but she’s getting it. I took the picture of Lennard running with her just so that we’d have one to pretend that we actually helped her! LOL.
Seeing Emma ride without training wheels got Ben thinking. He hasn’t ridden his bike very much so I knew he wasn’t quite ready… at least without a lot of help, but he wasn’t being deterred. Lennard moved the training wheels up so that he’d have to balance a bit more, but that wasn’t good enough. He finally climbed up to Lennard’s tool chest, found the right wrench and took things into his own hands! In his words, “If daddy won’t do it, I’ll do it myself!” The funniest thing was that once the training wheels were off and he attempted to ride, it was about five minutes before he was asking for them to be put back on! Guess we’re going to have to spend some quality time helping him learn how to ride his bike.
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