Bike!

After such a hiatus, where to start? Probably with the most recent. Last week while at a family get-together for Mothers Day, LS inherited a bike from a cousin who has outgrown in. This is the first video of LS riding a bike, with training wheels naturally.



What isn't shown here is that she was given one of those little 8 ounce bottles of water in the basket which shortly after the video here she insisted on taking out and drinking. Of course little legs get pretty thirsty on a 40 yard bike ride.

The bike is pinker than we'd choose, and we haven't exposed her to all the usual Disney princess stories, so to here her bike has pictures of "fairies" on it.

Today she got some more time on the bike and really got the hang of starting to pedal and steering and the like. No video yet of that, or the first two spills that she took. The first on the side of the driveway into the hasta and the second right on the driveway. She did a pretty good job of dusting herself and getting back on, although I think she found it pretty confusing to find herself laying out on the ground with a bike on top of her.

She got her first lesson in bike maintenance today, insisting that she take care of pumping the tires all by herself. She did a pretty good job too. (warning, she lets out a scream in the middle!)