Our Biker Babe

Well, despite searching high and low for a quality brand second hand 16" bicycle (no characters allowed!!), Hannah's wish for the new pink polka-dot bike with basket from our locally owned Schwinn store came true! She is quite enamored with her new bike, as well as her groovy helmet. Hannah especially likes the basket up front; she talks about taking family bike rides to the Farmer's Market with Bun-Bun along for the ride, and how she'd like to carry fruit home in the basket, too. Sounds perfectly dreamy, if you ask me.

This is Hannah riding her spiffy new bike away from me.
Amelia, who recently inherited Hannah's old tricycle, wants a "pink hee-mat," too.

Nifty basket, right? That's what sold her.
Hannah did pretty well for her first few spins this week. She just rode back and forth on a straight piece of sidewalk, part of a circular path around our fave park. We're still working against her natural desire to drag her shoes on the ground to stop, as well as completely taking her hands off the handle bars and lunging for Mommy. Not good technique. We'll get there, though!!
All too soon...