The weekend theme was “bicycle”. Mom had been looking at bikes all week, but decided to act on Saturday. She got a new bike for Corwin and new training wheels for the little bike so that Alice can ride it as her first bike. Charles, as noted, has also recently become bike capable. Mom had some problems getting the training wheels on (they were too tall, so we had to angle them forward to get the height right) but in the end everyone was on a bike except for poor lonely Dad. Mom and Corwin went off on a bike ride to his school while I tried to keep Alice and Charles from getting run over.
Mom also got bike baskets for Alice and Charles, along with a bike horn for Charles and a bike bell for Alice. Charles refused the horn and later took off his basket but Alice liked her accouterments.
On Sunday Mom took both boys off for a long bike ride all the way downtown. It was somewhat slow going because of Charles, but he made it all the way there and back without whining. He also wore a backpack with a sleeping bag in it, presumably in case he couldn’t make it back until tomorrow.
A cloud on the horizon, though, is that Mom is threatening to get herself a bike so she doesn’t have to borrow mine and I would then be able to go on the rides as well. I just don’t see that we have that kind of money in the family budget and, as a loving and dutiful Dad, I will just have to make that sacrifice.
Corwin on his first ride of his new bike