Karis Learns to Ride Her Bike

Karis learned to ride a bike tonight. It's neat to see how fast they pick it up once they start to overcome the fear of crashing and feel the balance of the bike. She has practiced a few times which never lasted for more than 5 minutes. However, the last time she tried she had ridden by herself about 15 ft. When we practiced tonight, she was able to ride the "entire" length of our sidewalk. She almost quit part-way through, but Kristen came home from exercise class and that motivated her again. At one point she said, "I'm trying to get away from you!" as I was jogging behind her, so I slowed down and eventually just stopped. She just kept riding up and down the sidewalk entirely by herself including stopping and starting. She was pretty thrilled about it and plans to ride tomorrow by herself. We'll see if her confidence remains for tomorrow.