First Bike Ride

Titus went on his first bike ride this morning.  He went around the island with Brian.  All by himself.  He doesn't need any help to start, and no training wheels.  He made it all the way around with only 1 little rest break (it takes a lot of pedaling for not quite 3 1/2 year old legs).  After a longer rest at Bia's, he went around the island again with me.  Brian and I were both riding a bike, so he really did it all by himself!!  Titus does a pretty good job stopping, too.  He's not good enough yet to tackle the ride from our house to Bia's, but by the end of the summer, I'm sure he will be riding over there with us.

For those of you curious as to what a glidebike is and where we got it: Titus' Mini glider bike.  We bought one of these for Titus' first bike when he was a little over 2 years old.  He rode the gliderbike for a year.  We bought him a real bike this spring and never put training wheels on it.  We didn't even open the training wheels.  Our biggest struggle is that with both bikes, when he first got them he was so little we had to get creative to get the seat low enough for him to be able to do it himself - which is the whole point.  Let the kid figure it out for him/her self.

Isabele is still a little small for the gliderbike but I think she'll be using it by this fall.