To say he was excited is an understatement. I put the thing together in the living room, and he sat next to me the whole time, either watching, holding the tools or bike parts, or trying to help out. As you can imagine, the latter was usually the exact opposite of helping out, but he meant well.
An hour or so later--hey, I'm no handyman AND I had distractions--the tricycle was complete and Lucas posed for pictures. This is one of those cases where we didn't have to prompt him to smile. At all.
Here he is on his first "ride." What you don't see in the video (or the previous pictures) is that there is an extra piece that attached behind the seat that allows me to push the trike just like a stroller and I can even turn it. Having pushed him around on the neighbor's tricycle without that handle a weekend before, my back thanks me profusely. It makes life a LOT easier, for any of you mulling over whether it's worth it.
One last thing. You can hear Marilu mention it briefly in the first video, but Lucas wore that helmet from the point we picked it up at Walmart until right before he went to bed. Yes, that includes dinner. We couldn't help but laugh and joke that he looked mentally challenged eating dinner wearing a bike helmet. Hey, whatever floats his boat, I guess.
3 comments:
OK 2 things:
#1: I like how his shorts hit his calves... unless he's sporting coolats ;)
#2: Since when do parents feel children must wear helmets on a trike? Are we THAT afraid that the kid might break his head from dropping 14 inches onto the groud? If so, you better make him wear the helmet when he plays in the pots and pans closet too. However since he's already wearing it full time, maybe that's covered.
Happy Early 2nd Birthday to Lucas! What a great present to give him. Carson just loves his tricycle and I have a feeling that Connor will be riding it sometime this summer too once his feet can reach the pedals a little bit better.
Ooh yeah, the tricycle. That was also Thierry's 2nd birthday present from Mom and Dad (but he got his late!) and he loooooves it. Very, very exciting. He gets to ride his to daycare everyday with Dad... Mom was going to take him in the car this morning, but that didn't go over well and Dad caved and brought him on the trike!
As for the helmet comment (Nicole), they should wear it because it is the beginning of a life-long association of riding a bike=wearing a helmet. Plain and simple. We leave his at daycare now so he'll wear it riding the tricycle they have there. I don't want him getting the idea that he doesn't really need to wear it and then having it be a tantrum-starter. Or for him to be one of those kids that rides around with their helmet on their handle bars. And frankly, Thierry bangs his head often enough when he isn't wearing a helmet, that any time he might happen to be wearing one for such an incident can only be a good thing. And he loves wearing it, just like Lucas. He wore it home in the car yesterday when I picked him up.
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