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Luke Rides!

We noticed a few weeks ago that Ella's knees were knocking against the handlebars of her bike (well, not quite, but almost).  So today we went to the bike store and picked out a new one, a HUGE purple bike, just right for tooling around the neighborhood on.  We also got water bottles, a little "bike purse", and a kickstand for Luke's bike, since he asked us to remove the training wheels and to give him a kickstand.  He's been riding the "strider" bike pretty well for a while, and almost balancing on his own bike, but we wanted to wait until he was ready.

Well, we got home from the bike store and every few seconds Luke was trying to open the kickstand.  He really wanted to put it on.  "You can have the kickstand after you learn to ride without training wheels," we told him.  So, of course, he insisted even more that he wanted to take the training wheels off immediately.

Michael got his tools and took off the training wheels and went into the house to put away his tools.  When he got back, moments later, Luke had already ridden down the driveway to the road.  He practiced for a while, and then he went for a mile-long ride around the neighborhood with Daddy.  I'm left wondering why we waited so long to take off his training wheels---he clearly knows what to do.  I'm not sure if it's because of the strider bike, or his scooter, or because of his personality, or because he's watched his sisters, or some other reason, but riding a two wheel bike was not a challenge for him.  Go Luke!

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