You go, kid!

[rhu]

Tani decided he was ready to give up the training wheels on his bike. After a few rounds up and down the sidewalk, and then around the block, we decided to celebrate by all four of us biking to Starbucks (a little over a mile) for overpriced chocolate milk. Most of the way there, he kept saying "I can't do this!" while doing it. We took the scenic route back --- part of which meant he could ride in the street, instead of on the narrow sidewalk, which meant far fewer fence- and hedge-related interruptions :-) and he had no troubles at all. Whoo-hoo!

Comments

[42itous.livejournal.com]

That's awesome!

Tell him that I had training wheels on my bike until I was eleven, and now I'm 30 and I bike to work (four and a half miles each way). :)

[violetcheetah.livejournal.com]

I was 10, so he beat me, too. Also, it took me three days to learn to pedal hard enough to get up a hill without falling over.

[introverte.livejournal.com]

He's still working on that. But he overcame his basic defeatism, so we're very proud.

[michelel72.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

[cellio]

Excellent!

[lucretia-borgia.livejournal.com]

Yaaaay!

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Great! (Did Alissa ride too?)

[introverte.livejournal.com]

She did, and now she wants to get rid of her training wheels too. We think she should wait a few months.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I never got past the training-wheels stage. Something about growing up on a hill...