Day One is over, and now that the kids know what to expect, they are counting down at warp speed to Day Two.
They both thought it was going to be a lot of falling off the bike and drill sargeant barking. What they got was an adaptive bike specifically designed for spotters instead of hands-on teaching like we’re used to seeing. The bike is the teacher with adjustable rollers as its back “wheel” that can simulate two back wheels like a trike that would give the kids full balance or, six adjustments later, barely touches the ground as each end of the roller are positioned at an angle off the floor.
Jon Alex got the hang of things relatively quickly, so before the other parents started asking who’s the ringer, I explained the situation. Poor kid never learned to ride because his mommy held him back? Sympathetic enough and perfectly understandable. At least he never blew past the other kids who were trying to keep both feet on the pedals yelling eat my dust.
Ehren promising to learn to ride a bike in five years for free
I’ll have you know that I was staring at these photos SO HARD that I burned the breakfast sausage right on through. The expressions on your kids’ faces, and the dandy dangler that Ehren is in — the house was filled with smoke.
E, the dangler is a doorway bouncer I ordered from target.com. Want five minutes peace? Get one. No more than 30 bucks. The older kids are in bike heaven this week. More pictures later.