ride on girl!

so summer has come and gone.... all summer long we have asked sydney if she would like to try to ride her bike with her training wheels off. her answer always "nope, i like my bike just as it is." she could not be persuaded to try it.

well, yesterday sydney went into the garage to get her bike out only to discover that the front tire had completely fallen off. she came to tell me and in the back of my mind i assumed tim had taken it off because she left it out in the driveway or something ( bikes have been known to wind up in trees around here if they are left in the driveway for too many days in a row :) i called tim, nope it must have just fallen off on it's own.

anywho, i told her to go ride dylans tricycle. literally 15 minutes later she comes running in to tell me she can ride austin's bike for a little bit and that i have to come sit and watch her. sure enough she could ride short streches without falling over, and by the time austin came home from school and demanded his bike back she was a pro! true to her personallity, she learned to do it completely without the help of tim or i. no running up and down the driveway hanging onto the back of her seat for this girl..... kind of sad, but were oh so proud! here she is.... (and i must say, my first video upload to the blog!)