Memorial day bikes!!!

On Saturday, we happened to find bikes that were just the right size for Tyler and Emalyn and we bought them.  We'd been planning on getting Emalyn a bike, she'd been asking for one for a while and we'd been looking, but Tyler had been saying that he didn't want a bike, and he really didn't want to learn.  So we had no intention of getting him one, but then he was with Scott when they found a bike just the right size, and he got excited and said he wanted to learn how to ride it.  So we got Tyler and Emalyn each a bike, and then Scott put training wheels on a bike we already owned for Krysta, and we changed our Memorial Day plans to include learning to ride bikes!

We were really excited.  We didn't think they'd learn in one day, but we were excited to see how far they'd get today.  We went over to the church parking lot, and Tyler's friend Isaac came too.

 

Tyler was amazing.  He taught HIMSELF in about 5 minutes.  Incredible.  He then just rode all around the parking lot the rest of the time we were there.

Emalyn was awesome.  We'd gotten this "balance buddy" that you hook on to the back of the bike, so you don't kill your back helping your child learning to ride their bike.  Not sure why we bothered now, since Emalyn had bicycling down after about 15 min of us running with her.

 

Success!!

Krysta was nervous at first to ride this "big girl" bike, but forgot that fear after about 5 seconds and rode all over.

And this little guy was just happy to be along for the ride.

Now to get a bike for me...:)