Learning to Ride

Chloe has been desperately wanting to ride her bike without training wheels.Sad to say, our hilly subdivision is not the place to do this, so we pack up the bike and head to our local public school parking lot. The only problem with this, is we really can only practice riding on the weekend or late evening.

She did amazingly well and learned really quick. The first time we went, I wore flip-flops. What was I thinking?!? Well, I was thinking Dakota and Brent were with me and surely I could just supervise. LOL! No such luck, so I kicked the flip-flops off and ran up and down the asphalt parking lot holding on the the seat of Chloe's bike. Thirty minutes later my feet were seriously sore, but Chloe was getting the hang of it.

Due to totally craziness, we were not able to take her back again for several weeks. Again, I gave her a running start and then jogged along side her to prevent any horrific crashes. She did super, so I headed back with her the next day by myself. She not only was able to do three laps around the big bus parking lot without stopping, but she figured out how to push off and get started on her.

Yeah Chloe!