Today Mae learned to ride a bike!!! I really wish I had a video to post to show you but alas my memory on my phone is full and I can't capture any new memories until I move the old ones to our hard drive.
Back story, yesterday I got a bee in my bonnet that the kids needed to learn to ride bikes. Mae is 5 and going into kindergarten and I felt it is high time that we get on it. At around 1 pm, I motivated everyone out to try it. Mae was semi-interested but not very committed and she kept complaining of being hot. Whitaker had no interest and gave up after 2 minutes of trying. After feeling a little (or a lot) frustrated with the kids unwillingness to learn, I gave up. However, I committed to myself that every evening we would go outside and practice bike riding. I figured if we did this every day for a week even for just a little bit, she was bound to have some success. I was also figuring that her level of determination to "getting it" was going to be the same as yesterday so that it would take us quite awhile. But nope!! She was so committed that she tried and tried and tried for almost 2 hours off and on. After me working with her then Pearson came home and he worked with her. And right when we were about to go in for the night, she got it!
I was a proud mom tonight. Pearson told me I looked like a lunatic screaming for her. Trust me, I know that bike riding is a skill that all kids pretty much learn but it was pretty darn amazing watch her do it.
Back story, yesterday I got a bee in my bonnet that the kids needed to learn to ride bikes. Mae is 5 and going into kindergarten and I felt it is high time that we get on it. At around 1 pm, I motivated everyone out to try it. Mae was semi-interested but not very committed and she kept complaining of being hot. Whitaker had no interest and gave up after 2 minutes of trying. After feeling a little (or a lot) frustrated with the kids unwillingness to learn, I gave up. However, I committed to myself that every evening we would go outside and practice bike riding. I figured if we did this every day for a week even for just a little bit, she was bound to have some success. I was also figuring that her level of determination to "getting it" was going to be the same as yesterday so that it would take us quite awhile. But nope!! She was so committed that she tried and tried and tried for almost 2 hours off and on. After me working with her then Pearson came home and he worked with her. And right when we were about to go in for the night, she got it!
I was a proud mom tonight. Pearson told me I looked like a lunatic screaming for her. Trust me, I know that bike riding is a skill that all kids pretty much learn but it was pretty darn amazing watch her do it.
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