9.13.2008

Conquering Everest!

So for any of you who don't know.....Brandon broke his arm falling off of his bike about 11 months ago. Since then he has been very scared to ride his bike. Mostly because everytime he did he fell off it, even with the training wheels on. Well, about a month or so ago we decided that we should try it without the training wheels. He wanted nothing to do with it, and he cried over it for about 30 minutes. We convienced him to give it a try and of course he fell off. We made a deal with him that if he learned to ride his bike we would take him to the Celebration Centre, a local theme park. So with so many things going on in our house teaching him kind of fell to the wayside. So this last week I took him over to the chuch started him out and let him go. After a few failed attempts and some minor coaching he has learned to ride his bike. At least in a really large parking lot, he isn't so steady on sidewalks yet but I am sure they will come. Here is a clip of my big boy conquering his everest. You can see how excited he is to be able to finally ride his bike. Today after I got home from work we went to the church again and he just rode around for about an hour and was upset when I told him it was time to go home. Next he needs to learn to start out by himself and he will be good to go. Oh and how to stop without crashing! :)

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