Anna's First Bike

Anna has been experiencing a little bit of "wheel envy" lately. All of her cousins have bikes or scooters or something with wheels. She loves sitting at the window watching the neighbor kids ride their bikes and scooters up and down the sidewalk. She has even gotten to the point that when she sees a bike she will say, "Bike! Anna Bike! Anna needs bike."
Devin and I talked a lot about getting her something with wheels. My big request was that we should get her something that she can do on her own. After pushing her around on different things I really didn't want to spend my summer bent over pushing her so she could go. I wanted to get her something that she could do all on her own.
Devin has a friend at work who got a Strider bike for his little boy. We both were interesting in this type of bike because there are no pedals so the kid just pushes along and they can learn balance first. There are little foot rest in the back so when she starts to push herself along more she can put her feet up and just glide. We decided to give it a try.
Anna's bike came today. No shocker that Devin HAD to get the orange bike. :) Here is a video of Anna's very first ride.

Yup, she fell down and she goes pretty slow, but this was her very first time. The interesting thing was that by the time she made it down the sidewalk to the mailbox she was already figuring out how to turn it and would catch herself every time she started to tip over. She was going pretty good by the time we got back by our house.
The best part is that when she had to go inside she cried and cried, "bike, ride bike!" And as soon as she woke up from her nap she said, "bike, ride bike!"
We'll take more video after more practice. For now, she loves her bike and mom doesn't have to bend over to push her. YEAH!!!! So Anna loves to run, loves to ride a bike...now all we need to do is get her swimming and we can train for a triathlon together. :)