Bike Riding

Now that we live on the farm and don't have easy access to paved roads, sidewalks, or a concrete driveway like most people that live in a subdivision...it has taken Joshua quite a while to master the bike riding thing. My older sister, Auntie Sissy, sent him a tricycle when he was two. Let's just say it sat for a very, very long time without being touched because he couldn't muster up enough strength to push it through the grass and dirt on our property. Last month  we built a 12' x 12' porch. I brought the tricycle up onto the porch for him to try there. He started mastering the peddling quite quickly. I loaded the tricycle up into the back of my car and took him to the Play for All Abilities park in Round Rock, which has a little village for the kids to play in that looks just like a little town, complete with street signs, lights, a hospital, fire station, grocery store, school, library, car dealership, gas station, and little home. He really got going on the little streets there. Nana saw the video and before we knew it we had a brand new big boy bike show up. It took him another week to master the peddling of that since he couldn't peddle backwards. Now he is a pro...he still struggles when we go down our street since it is a dirt road with a lot of rocks, pot holes, and dirt that get in the way of those little tires spinning. We load up the bike and take it to the park as much as possible and he zooms around like a pro. Just yesterday he had the bike going around and around in circles on the porch. He is getting so big and at this rate he'll have the training wheels off in no time at all.

Here is Joshua riding around on his tricycle

And then a week later here he is on his big boy bicycle.