Another First

Yesterday Bonnie was outside with Isaac having another go at trying to teach him to ride his bike without training wheels. After a little while, Isaac excitedly comes in my office asking me to come outside to watch him do something. "Dare I hope he's actually got it this time?" was the essential question running through my mind as I walked outside. And it's hard to describe the feelings I felt as I then watched him take his first "pedals" on his own without support of any kind. Pride, joy, satisfaction, RELIEF probably were all mixed in there together.



Then this morning Isaac is all keen again to go riding once more. So we go in the front yard and practice again for a little while. Then we decide to go for a family ride together. There were a few stops and starts along the way, but honestly both Bonnie and I couldn't stop commenting to each other how well we thought Isaac was doing. It probably wasn't even a 5-minute ride to the park we rode to, but once we got there, we must have spent an hour or so just riding around on the baseball diamonds, the grass, and the bike park (complete with jumps). Isaac was quite excited to go to this bike park as he'd seen the big kids ride and jump there on previous visits. Isaac rode in between the jumps along the level parts, while I SLOWLY rode up and over the jumps. I know my limits believe me! We met a family friend in the parking lot on the way back home and Isaac quite proudly showed him how he could ride on his own now.



After Bonnie left for work this afternoon, Isaac and I rode our bikes to another park where there was a soccer tournament going on. So we watched the game for a while and then Isaac met some new friends and proceeded to play and even share his bike with another little 5-year-old who went for a ride as well. It's been quite warm here lately (in the 30's), and so we didn't stay that long at the park before we rode through town, down Main Street and then back home.



Quite a lot for his first full day of riding. But he told me at dinner when I asked him what the best part of the day was, that "riding my bike" was indeed the best.