Milestones

Right up there with learning to walk and a first tooth is of course, losing the training wheels. At the beginning of April I took Alexs training wheels off and you would have thought I took his foot off with them. Needless to say, he was not happy. Not the kind to pick a fight with a 5 year old, I put them back on. On Sunday we came home after lunch with Michelle and Mom & the neighbor girl, she's in Alex's class, was riding her bike up and down the street with no training wheels.

ANYWAY! Alex got off the bus today after school & I set the kids up in the front yard with toys so I could do some weeding (by the way, if you'd like to do that for me I'll wave the $5 entrance fee to the pool). Elena comes running over to me "MOM! Alex got dads tools!" So I go over & he has one wheel off & is working on the other. I asked him what he was doing. He looked at me and said "taking the wheels off mom" in that 'do I have to explain everything to you mom' way that kids do so well. He got the wheels off & asked me to hold the bike while he climbed on. I said I would walk with him & he told me to let go. So I did. Off he rode. I didn't even have to run after him.