Up on TWO!

Angela and I are proud to announce that as of Feb. 25, 2009, Izzy can now ride her bicycle without training aids of any kind!  Here are a few pictures to prove it.

Proper safety gear is very important and should always include a bike helmet and a pink tutu as a bare minimum.

The Send Off:

Izzy is underway!

I think she can sense the freedom that is at her fingertips.  

It is never too early to begin learning proper wheelie techniques.

Izzy was pretty wobbly the first day, but the next day she got the hang of cruising down the road and turning around within the width of the street.  Progress!  

Now that she can ride a bicycle, she wants to ride Gavin's dirtbike.  I'll have to make sure the throttle limiter is in place because Izzy already likes to go wide open when I take her for rides on that poor little PW50.

What's amazing is that fact that both Gavin and Izzy learned to ride a bicycle at the 3.5 year old mark, about 1.5 to 2 years before I did!  I think I was five or possibly six years old before I learned to ride.  

I can still remember borrowing my older brother's bike and trying to ride it.  From what I can recall, it had a banana seat and big tall handlebars...kinda Schwinn Stingray-ish, but I doubt it was a true Stingray since we were quite broke.  Anyway, I was too small to reach the peddles from the seat, so I took a towel, folded it over a few times and layed it over the top tube.  Ouch!! I eventually learned how to ride after a few days and pretty much never quit riding after that.     

On a motorized two wheeled related note...I now have one day left before I can officially get back on my motorcycle.  Yes, I will admit to succombing to pressure and going for two very brief rides in the past couple of weeks, but other than that, I've not been riding for 9 months (June 6, 2008 to be exact)!  Sunday better not be raining.  And yes, I'll be riding to church!

Laters y'all!