Sunday, June 22, 2008

His Newest Feat!


I think the 2 missing teeth in front was a foreshadow to what happened today! His teeth fell out so that they wouldn't catch bugs as he zips through the neighborhood riding his bike with no training wheels! You know, his front windshield is gone so the bugs won't hit and splat. We took Ethan's training wheels off a week ago after the Moser's got here. Seeing his friends ride their bikes with no training wheels was inspiration. So, we had a practice run with mom and dad holding the seat. That ended in frustration and Ethan saying, "I'll never ride a bike again!" My thought was we'd let him be re-inspired after trying to keep up with his speedy friends and we wouldn't say a thing. Sure enough, not even a week later, Ethan wanted to get back out on the bike. We noticed he was having a hard time figuring out the balancing thing so Eric brilliantly had him practice coasting down our slight incline of a driveway with his feet up the air. Then, we had him coast and put his feet on the pedals. We encouraged him to start pedaling and after only a couple times and a couple days of trying this, he is riding a bike! Last night at the Moser's we saw him pushing Abby's bike with both of his feet to gain momentum (simulating our declined driveway) and then putting his feet on the pedals and pedaling. Then, this morning, he coasted down our driveway, pedaled and kept on pedaling! He is loving going up and down our flat sidewalks. We went and bought him a new Ben Ten helmet, but it doesn't fit right. We haven't solved the problem of getting frustrated and expecting perfection on the first run of things, but at least the biking is under his belt. I'm sure I'll blog about the first real biking accident. (And yes, Grandma's, he was wearing a helmet this morning, but he took it off when I went in to get my camera. He thought he was done. I wanted him to get back on so I could do a photo shoot!)
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2 comments:

Ange~ said...

I understand the wanting perfection right off the bat- Ysa has a really hard time with that too. I love the picture of him with his fist "Yessss..."

Andrea said...

Cute pics! Abby will be happy to have another biking partner to conquer the neighborhood with!