I Want to Ride My Bicycle!

Yep, you guessed it...our cute little 2 y/o proclaimed this past weekend that he wanted a bike. Being the ever enabling parents we scooted on out to Target to get a bike...and quickly found that we needed to take our ever compliant tot to Wally World as Target didn't have what we were looking for.

Alex picked out a yellow and black bike with training wheels. Being the scrapbook minded mother, I quickly pulled out my oh so compact camera to record the decision making process.

Then the interesting part started. Apparently to Alex a bike is to be scooted or pushed...we tried diligently to explain the concept of peddling but somewhere between pedals and push down we ended up pushing back and putting on the brake to a happy proclamation that "I have feet!" So Dad and I pushed Alex, on his bike, from the back of the store to the register...yes, with the brake on the whole time...and keep in mind this is a toddler bike, so it's maybe 3ft tall and we are hunched over with our child happily explaining to anyone who would listen this was HIS bike.

When we got home of course we trodded out the helmet and tried the whole peddle concept again but our excitement over the bike soon faded into other outside exploration. Namely jumping off rocks and pulling leaves off mommy's plants. Oh, and we can't forget running to the neighbors, opening their gate and tromping through their backyard. Good thing their pond was empty and Alex stopped running after mom yelled for the umpteenth time. But what I find the most entertaining is that at no time did he stop to remove his bike helmet, so here is this kid running up and down the neighborhood with a helmet on :>