Scooters and a Princess Bike

The past few months we have trying to get the boys to ride their bikes without their training wheels. Seeing little kids, some as young as 3-years old, riding their bikes should have been initiative enough, but it wasn't. After taking off both training wheels, putting one back on, and lots of frustration, we gave up for a while. Jeremy then decided that once the new baby was born, he'd use some of his PTO to really get the boys to ride. After all, they are five and seven! It's about time!

One of the websites we researched agreed with what some of our other neighbors had told us- let them learn to ride on a scooter first. Both boys had scooters since that's what their Grandpa and Grandma Frye gave them for Christmas, but we wanted them to learn to ride their bikes first. We thought the scooters would hinder, not help. Boy, were we wrong! We broke out their scooters a couple of weeks ago and they've been riding them almost everyday. Then, last night on our walk to the school playground, we ran into our neighbors, the Perez's. Their one daughter was riding a smaller bike without training wheels and had sat it down. Noah went over to it, picked it up, and without a second thought, began riding all over the playground. We were utterly shocked! When did this happen?! After Noah rode a few minutes on her bike, Jackson wanted to try. He, too, was able to do it! We were completely amazed. Both of our boys were actually riding a bike without training wheels! It didn't matter that it was smaller or that it was a Princess bike, they were riding, all on their own! We quickly returned home to try out their own bikes and sure enough they could still do it. The scooters must have paid off. If only we had really known!

Both of the boys wanted to ride their bikes this morning. They have discovered more freedom now since we don't make them just stick to the sidewalk in front of our house.

Watch out for these speed demons!