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| New Bikes: July 24th. Happy Pioneer Day! |
They seriously ride, every day. I'm not kidding.
Brooklyn usually rides her little tricycle, but it's falling apart. When we took her to the store to LOOK at bikes, she got on a little bike with training wheels and took off and Kyle and I looked at each other like, "What the heck! She can ride?" So we got her a new bike, and now she won't ride it. She's incredibly nervous. I've helped her a bunch of times, but she's still scared. There isn't anything that could warrant this kind of caution from her, other than we're outside and not in a store. It's not like she's fallen off yet. Hopefully, it won't last long.
Jocelyn is the only one who didn't get a new bike this year. Hers was still in pretty good shape- she just needed a new seat and new grips. Done and done. She loves those star grips too. And it made her bike new again, so she's delighted. She'd love to learn to ride without her training wheels, but she lacks confidence completely. I hope we can work up the courage soon! She's excited to ride her bike to school too.
Landon had outgrown his bike, in a big way. He may not be much heavier, but he's gotten taller. His knees were nearly hitting the handle bars. His biggest dream for his next bike was that "I can pedal backwards". We figured out pretty quick he wanted to be able to back pedal without breaking, meaning he wanted a BMX bike or one with gears. And the BMX won out. It's a little big for him, but the size smaller is just to small by a hair. It took him less than a day to adjust to this bike, and we're pretty confident he'll grown into it by fall.
And last, but not least, Catelyn's bike was seriously falling apart. More than 15 years old, the sweet hand-me down had seen it's day. But it was working, most of the time. However it had an unfortunate death when Cate left it in the drive way while a neighbor was over visiting. When our friend left, he backed right over it. Thus, we loaded it up and took it to the dump. Poor Catelyn, she was devastated. We let her wallow in her despair for a few days, but really the timing wasn't so bad. We were planning on new bikes for the kids before school anyway.
With her bike's demise, we had a reason to go get new bikes.
But boy, oh boy, did they all get an earful on taking care of their bikes once again. This time, both Catelyn and Landon's bikes have kickstands, which before, neither of their old bikes had that. They're pretty excited about those, which is good, and if they park on concrete or drop their bikes on their sides, they're grounded. They are to park on grass and use those kickstands. Is it really all that hard?
Yes. Yes it is.
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