For a while now, Jamie has insisted he can ride a two-wheeler. As he's just four, I've been skeptical. His training wheels have been off his little bike since the spring, but we haven't spent a ton of time working on it because he hasn't even done a lot of pedaling on his training wheels. Because Lucy rides so quickly, I usually pull him in the bike trailer rather than running along while they both rode. I underestimated the determination of the second child.
This was our first trip around the block with Lucy in the lead in the Mario Kart (see, Mom? We do have it.) It makes me super nervous to have my kids riding on the sidewalk on our street as the cars go SO fast past our house on the road with no shoulder. I was unprepared for him to be really riding, so after teaching him to use the brakes ...
We moved down the road to a park loop that's wide and far enough away from the road that I don't feel like I have to run interference between a wobbly bicycle and zooming cars.
Can you believe this kid?
And of course, the old pro, Lucy.
We love bike riding!
Jamie on Two Wheels from
Kristin York on
Vimeo.
