Saturday, April 18, 2009

New Bikes

We got the kids new bikes yesterday. We got them as early birthday presents-we didn't want them to have to miss out riding bikes for the next month and a half. Maddie's bike is just way to small for her and Garen has been riding Maddie's pink and purple 3 wheeler.
Andy took Garen earlier in the day to pick out his bike-he picked Spiderman. Then we took Maddie after school; she found a bike in her favorite color blue.

When we got home we let the kids try them out. Garen hasn't got the pedaling down yet, but he'll get it.
And we pulled Maddie's training wheels off first thing and she was off. She is so crazy! She just started riding around almost running into things and when she stopped she realized she could no longer put her feet on the ground like she could with her old bike. So we had a couple crashes. But that didn't stop her, she would hop back on and keep riding.
She only stopped riding after she crashed into the side of a truck and fell in a huge puddle of mud. She was fine-I tried to take a picture of her covered in mud, but she ran away and didn't want anyone to see a picture of her muddy back side.

4 comments:

Ben and Sara said...

Yay, for the new bikes! Garen's bike is pretty similar to Colton's spiderman bike. It took Colton a few tries to get the pedaling down but now he does it really well. So hopefully you won't get anymore snow so they had enjoy their bikes.

Alisha Wilkins said...

Taylor is the same way about the pedaling. She doesn't get it. I want to get her a cute little special bike...someday.

Maddie makes me laugh! I would have loved to watch her crash into a truck! :)

Korbi said...

I love your table in the background, where did you get it and what's it's story?
Isn't it crazy that we have kids? I mean, your kids are riding bikes for heaven sakes and just under 10 years ago a kid rode a motorcycle through our halls at school, weird huh?

Johnsons said...

Sounds like Maddie got the Jardine coordination. Maybe not. How fun.