This past weekend has welcomed two major milestones! Or, at least, the interest and huge progression towards those milestones. And both of these things probably could have been successful much sooner, but Craig and I have just been putting them off and being lazy.
Sophie spent nearly the entire weekend in underwear (except for church and a baseball game... oh, and sleep time) with only two pee accidents! She is still uncertain about pooping in the potty and NEVER tells us ahead of time, but she finally seemed interested and proud to wear her Dora underpants and we really worked at staying on top of potty breaks. I know regression happens even after big steps forward, but this progress has sparked some major motivation in us!
And the second milestone was Will learning to ride his bike without training wheels!!! I don't know why we haven't really tried this before. As soon as I got him started he took off and did SO WELL the entire time we practiced. We were in the parking lot in front of the new elementary school and he had plenty of space to ride long stretches and stop on his own. He CAN stop and get his feet down to catch himself, but getting started and making turns is something we will continue to work on. He was SO proud and excited! He kept saying "Look mom/dad! I can ride without training wheels! I'm just like Jagger and Ryan and Griffin!" :-)
This was after nap time and before dinner and the day just continued to be gorgeous all the way to dusk. Sophie rode her tricycle and ran around the empty lot and got TONS of exercise too. 
When he's pedaling, you can tell he is definitely outgrowing this bike. His legs are too long and his knees come up too high. But the height is just perfect for enabling him to stop and touch the ground safely. There is definitely a bigger bike on the shopping list for his birthday! And Sophie will be elated to get this hand-me-down with the training wheels back on. She already tries to steal it all the time before Will gets outside.
Way to go, Will!!!
I just can't even tell you how excited this made him. He asked to ride again as soon as we got home. Our driveway is long-ish, but still not as ideal as the parking lot. We're definitely going back.
After a lot of riding practice, I took the kids around to the back of the school to play on the playground for awhile. Seriously. TONS of energy burned this day. They napped well and crashed hard at bedtime. :-)
He loved hanging and dropping (and attempting a pull-up) on the pull-up bar.
It was kind of a big drop for his size and he was fearless!
Love these kiddos. With all my heart.
And I love perfect Saturdays like this one.
3 comments:
Woo hoo! Way to go, Will!!
GO WILL! :) Bike riding is so fun! Is he on a 12" bike? How tall is he? Mia is about 42", and she's on a 16" bike, and I'm trying to decide if she'd do better with a smaller bike... she does fine once she gets moving, but starting/stopping is kinda tough because she has to lean pretty far over to get her foot down to the ground.
Way to go, Will! And why have I never thought of riding bikes there? Great idea!
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