For his birthday, Wesley got a little mini balance bike that I found on Craigslist for $25. It’s a homemade one, which I love, partly because it is well-crafted and partly because its smaller than the other store-bought Skuut bikes.
Piper has a regular pedal bike with training wheels. She has ridden it less and less, and I’m not quite ready—in winter—to teach her to ride without the training wheels. So when I came across a flat-tired Skuut bike for $10 at Value Village, I grabbed it, knowing that used, these usually go for $50. I doubled the original cost when I fixed the wheels, but Piper loves it and uses it whenever she has the chance.
When we were at my parents’ house last weekend, Piper and Wes both figured out how to glide downhill with their feet up in the air. I think there is an implicit daring between the two.
Kyla just loves to ride her bike. She’s great at it now. Running along side her in the neighborhood I grew up in, I remembered learning to ride my own bike without training wheels. I was much older. But like her, I was certain I was the fastest thing on two wheels in the world!
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