Bonkers for Biking

Today was a day spent almost exclusively outside with my DD who is, as the title suggests, BONKERS FOR BIKING! Madison finally bit the bullet and decided yesterday that enough was enough - the training wheels HAD to come off!!! I think it was because we had talked about it and then she saw Nick riding a 2 wheel bike without training wheels that she felt compelled to learn herself. It is powerful motivation to see someone younger than you who has mastered something that you have been too scared to try! So, I took the training wheels off and after a few times of just supporting her while she got on, she wanted to do everything herself and tried about 20 times. She only fell a couple of times and did amazingly well for just learning. Today, she woke up BEGGING to go outside and ride her bike. Half of the day she rode the little purple one and then she got brave - she got out the BIG one that Amber gave her. By about 2pm, she was riding that like a pro. She went from our house all the way to the end of the block and back without falling at all. I was so proud of her stamina and stick to it attitude! I do have the feeling that she is going to want to go for bikerides every day for the rest of the summer....decked out in her helmet, long pants, long sleeve shirts, kneepads and elbowpads. She was just too cute...I guess I have to get my butt ready for some long hours spent on a bike!!!! Gotta keep up with my new biker babe!!!!