A Milestone’s Timeline!
April 2nd, 2008
4:34
Chloe: “Mom, I want to take the training wheels off my bike.”
Me: “Well, honey the wrench is in the garage. ”
Chloe: “I know Mom, please I know I can do it.”
Me: “Well, the garage is such a mess, we may have to wait for Daddy to come home.” (I am stalling because I don’t want to do the running along side thing right now.)
Chloe: “Mom, I know where it is, PLEASE!”
Me: “Well, honey it isn’t like you are going to just get on and go like your brother does now. He had to practice to get that good. It is going to take some practice.” (I am still stalling)
Chloe: “I know that, I want to practice, right now.”
Me: “You really think you can do it?”
Chloe: “YES MOM I KNOW I CAN DO IT!”
Me: “OK - Let’s give it a try.” ( I finally get that there is no way we are not trying this, so I embrace it, and gear up mentally to do the run along side thing.)
4:45
The training wheels are off and we begin. After about three passes she has the balance thing, but we need to work on steering and breaking.
5:00 Daddy home, park the bike out front, eat dinner.
6:00 Family clean up time. I remind everyone that we need to put our outside toys away in the garage. She hops on the bike again and rides it around to the back alley where she sees another family with her friend, and then I felt it in her spirit. It was like “sea biscuit”. She said “Let go Mom I can do it!” and with all the force her little frame could exert, she was off. And not a casual pace, I mean I couldn’t even keep up running along side her, let alone stop her from falling. I gulped and said a quiet prayer and she rode away from me, like she had been riding her bike for years. (Wow that is a metaphor for parenting, isn’t it?)
6:15 All the other little girls in the neighborhood wanted their training wheels off too. (Way to lead by example Chloe!)
6:15 - 7:00 Riding, and Riding and Riding, steering and breaking are old hat.
Today we work on starting by herself and at 4 and three quarters our little Chloe is a dare devil on wheels!
Oh the days they are a flyin’ people! Next thing I know she will want the keys to the car!
Entry Filed under: Funny things kids say..., kiddie fun, mommy stuff
6 Comments
Add your own1. lora | April 2nd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
oh! good for you! congratulations to chloe. how fun. great post. =) summer’s coming! =)
2. Vicki | April 2nd, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Wow! She looks so much like you, Amber. Congrats on the milestone.
3. Amber(Homeschool Diva) | April 2nd, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Lora - I feel like summer is here in SFL:-)
and Vicki she is a lot more like me than just looks. I guess that means she will be super awesome when she is grown up:-) My parents are laughing their socks off because I am getting major pay backs!
4. Vicki | April 2nd, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Aren’t parents nice? There are times hubby and I just look at each other and say “I don’t know WHERE they get it from, I was nothing like that as a child…” It is amazing.
5. truevyne | April 3rd, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Can she come give Pooh Bear some of that biking confidence? I proposed we try to bike again this summer at which Pooh Bear replied,”No, I don’t want to. I don’t want to get hurt.”
6. Amber(Homeschool Diva) | April 3rd, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Oh - True…you have a sensible one there. I don’t know what is better sensibility or passion and lack of fear. I will pray for dear Pooh:-)
Vicki, I am learning through my daughter how to love myself that is FOR SURE. Some things can’t be disciplined away. I don’t’ care what James D. says. I am trusting God for our children’s development into well rounded productive citizens who love others and follow Jesus unflinchingly…. Despite themselves
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