Conquered!!!

This milestone, deserves a post all my itself, b/c Ethan FINALLY learned how to ride his bike.  After 2 years of trying really hard to get him to get off those training wheels, he pretty much did it on his own this weekend.  Saturday, was sort of crappy and b/c of the rain, another baseball game was cancelled.  So our morning instantly freed up and we decided to take on the rain, get mulch, plant some flowers, and honestly just get outside.  The rain was off and on, so we had patches of nothing for a while and Brenton was doing some prep on our flower beds and I decided to get Ethan's bike down.  Well, he wasn't too happy about it at first, but I just told him to try it and if it didn't work out we'd just put it back in the garage, b/c the rain was coming in.  I didn't want to pressure him, but I did want to push him a tad to get out there and try it once again.  Once we got to the road, that is right beside our house, I grabbed a hold of his sweatshirt, explained where to put his feet on the pedals, and once he got started...he was off.  I swear I only held that sweatshirt for a few seconds and he had it.  Once he got it, he got it.....the smile on his face was priceless.

 

He GOT it!!!!

Later that evening, after he felt 100% comfortable on his bike....he reminded me that I made him a promise and that I did.  I promised that if he learned to ride his bike this summer, w/o training wheels, we would ride down to the park, like the big kids, and he could play.  I promised that, b/c that is what he has seen the older kids around town do and he wanted to do that, as well.  Well, it worked, b/c that enticed him enough to get on that bike and conquer it.  He was so proud of himself and so were we....we praised him for hours, I bet, but honestly this is huge for him.  Needless to say, our weekend consisted of him asking to ride that bike everywhere we went from that point on.  He loved the fact that he was getting lots of exercise, too.  As a family, we love to go on bike rides and now we can go for longer ones, since Ethan accomplished this.  Yay, Ethan....we are so proud of you!!!

1st ride to the park w/ NO training wheels