Wow – what a weekend. First off the weather sucked. It was cloudy, windy, and too cold to have much fun on our camp trip with family. I did however get to enjoy the thrill of seeing my boy at the ripe age of 3 years old ride a bike without training wheels for the first time. On Sunday at the campground we were letting the kids ride around. It was just a bit too cold to comfortably ride without long fingered gloves so the kids had socks on their hands in place of gloves. JP wanted to me to take his training wheels off. At first I figured this was going to be a quick deal and he would want the training wheels back on. Not quite. I gave him a little push and watched as he easily rode about 20 feet and made a right turn and gently fell over. Immediately we all got our cameras + video and readied him for the next run. It was awesome. He went for it and rode in a giant circle and stopped. He was completely doing it! I found some campground debris and marked off a course for him to ride around. It was sweet – he rode around for at least two hours and then we had a break. After the break he wanted to go some more so I went with him and helped him get started around the campground again. A few other boys were in the area and came over to ride, and crash, with JP. They had a great time and all was well.
