Ethan had been asking me on several occasions to take the training wheels off his bike because none of the big kids on the street had training wheels. Well, there were a couple of reasons I tried to find excuses to keep the training wheels on.
1. Pure selfishness on my part. Ethan loves to ride his bike and usually wants to go riding anytime there is a break in the rain. With the training wheels this is fine because I can put Ava in the carrier or stroller and head out for a little exercise. Taking the training wheels off would require taking the time to teach him to ride which would not allow for the walks for a little while and I would need to find ways to entertain Ava while helping him. 2. Ethan has a distorted concept of age and while he believes he’s at the same age and ability level as the other kids, they are about 3-4 years older.
Since his requests fell on deaf ears with mom Ethan decided to take his idea to Dad who quickly obliged and took off his training wheels. I learned of this when I returned home from work one evening and to be honest I was a bit miffed. However, Jairo assured me that they spent the afternoon practicing and that Ethan had picked it up quite quickly. So, the next morning Ethan was eager to show me his new skill. As you can see from the pictures Ethan did great and had Jairo running after him in no time. Of course he had a few little spills, but took the falls in stride and kept going. It took him a bit more practicing to get starting and stopping on his own down, but he did great and now we're back to going on our runs and walks with him biking alongside without training wheels.
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