A new bike and the biggest fava bean ever
We bought Silas a big kid’s bike today. This was quite the graduation from his Radio Flyer tricycle and Skuut balance bike. He’d been looking forward to it tremendously – finally getting a “big bike” that “older kids ride” with “only two wheels, one in the front, one in the back” and “pedals!”
We got his new Diamondback Viper with 16″ wheels home, took off the training wheels, helped him onto it, gave a shove and he was off!…balancing all on his own and riding it. Really riding it!
He quickly figured out that the faster he goes the better he can balance. Which resulted in me running full speed down our road next to him urging him to slooww down! Use those brakes! SLOW DOWN!
He crashed. He cried a little. Then he wanted to do it again. Up and down our dirt road he went with me running alongside him feeling utterly useless (with the exception of getting started, he does need help with that). He rode it so much his small little self got too tired to even push it back to the house; his small little self with that big ‘ol helmet on his head trying to push along that big ‘ol bike.
And then to top the day off after all the bike riding was done, we were out in the garden picking the evening’s dinner salad and he discovered the biggest fava bean EVER! (shown in the pic below, laying on the bike seat). He was almost as proud of this find as he was of his riding performance.
A big day for little Silas.
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