and...they're off!

kaia's training wheels, that is. :) she saw a little boy about her age the other day riding his bike without the training wheels and said, "mama, how's he doing that?" so, i told her that i'd teach her how to do it if she wanted & she did...so, today we headed up to the park where there is a lot of short grass so if she fell it wouldn't hurt too bad. she did pretty good, a couple of times i let her go and she was riding all by herself for a few seconds. not bad for a 30 minute lesson.
as you can see in the pic above, she wasn't too happy here. the time before this one, the bike tipped over. no, she didn't get hurt but it made her mad & she wanted to quit. so, i told her that i didn't want her to quit "on a bad note", so i asked her to try 1 more time for today. to say the least, she reluctantly went for one last ride & she did great. she seemed SO much happier after this one! :)

little sis was there supporting her...
this was when we first started...
she needed a little persuading...
leia was having a great time running down the big hill too :).