Riding Fools.

Rosie really wanted a bicycle like Lily's for her birthday. She loves to ride her trike but knows full well that it was not the same as her sisters. This seemed like an easy request to fill until we took her out to buy it. The kid is a midget! We needed something with 8 inch wheels and we could not find one anywhere. I finally decided to check eb*y and see if there was an organ grinder somewhere that owned a monkey who was willing to sell me the monkeys bike cos honestly that would have been the right size!

She tried a few out for size and struggled so much with them but finally she found one with large pedals and was able to do it. Hooray! It is a Barb!e bike which is really funny because I don't think Rosie has ever seen a Barbie. One happy little 3 year old now has her very first big girl bike and a very proud smile to go along with it. She will probably still be riding this when she is 10 unless she has this growth spurt that everyone assures me that she will have "any day now!"

She is so very happy, in fact, to own her bike that she woke up at 4.am today and asked if she could go out for a "bi-shickle wide". I suggested, in my normal 4.am bedside voice that she go back to sleep and we would "wide" her "bi-shickle" once Mr. Sunshine woke up. And indeed we did, we rode this morning and again this afternoon once Lily came come from school. Aghhh, it makes my brain itch to see my baby girl getting so big and riding her bike so fast and with so much confidence.

It takes full concentration to get moving.


Bunny had to come along.


The loud and proud 3 yr old


The even louder and prouder big sister.


This would have been a really great picture if Rosie had been looking. Oh well.


The speed demons