2-Wheeling With Clark

Clark has been riding around on a balance bike (a $5 bike from Craigslist I took pedals off of) for a few months with seemingly good balance. A few days ago I convinced him to try cruising down the driveway and he agreed. We started small, then he quickly built his confidence and was going down the full driveway as well as the neighbors'. After seeing that, Steve was pretty sure he could ride his pedal bike without training wheels and took them off right away. And he was right! Clark picked it up right away after a push from Daddy. I was very impressed, but not surprised. He's a determined little guy. In the past couple of days he's been practicing getting started with the pedals and has it down! He still prefers to ride the balance bike for now, though.

I'm going to miss the loud scraping sounds of those training wheels since it means my furiously-pedaling boy is still a bit smaller somehow. But I'm excited to watch him learn something new and reach another milestone. (I only wish potty training had been so easy!) My favorite part of watching him learn was when he would start his balance bike higher up on the driveway than the last cruise and would say out loud, "You can do this, Clark." Then he'd hop on and away he'd ride. It was totally precious. He's only gotten a tiny bit of road rash so far when he tipped over on his balance bike and the buckle on his helmet scraped his neck. His confidence wasn't shaken, though, and most afternoons we're outside riding away!