Owen asked us to take the training wheels off of his bike recently. We did, and took him to the park a couple of times to practice, and while he has been amazingly balanced – much better than we anticipated- he was frustrated that he couldn’t ride by himself yet. He started begging us to put his training wheels back on. Eric and I were hesitant to put them back on- worried that Owen’s view of the experience would make him unlikely to want to take them off again.
Today we met Charlotte and Bridget for a little bike ride. I was hoping Owen would have some success today – a few seconds of riding unassisted- which he did immediately (Well, immediately after I returned from running home to get his bike – which I forgot to bring…) He rode beautifully on the straight sections, but was nervous about the tight turns he had to take in the space we were in. We moved to the elementary school blacktop playground, and he was off! He was so proud of himself.
Tonight at dinner he told Eric and I that he never wants his training wheels put back on again.
I took a little video, but haven’t figured out how to get it to work on the blog yet.
Here is my very serious link to the video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rKS1EjoP4
ReplyDeleteit looks like eric is never going to forgive you for calling him serious. :)
ReplyDeleteand now welcome to the world where your 2 boys will always be 100 feet apart when they ride bikes. owen is off. good luck running back and forth between them!