Coasting on the Strider

We Kovars bike.  Andy really enjoys it, I think its relaxing, Charlie was off training wheels at 4, and Ephram has always enjoyed the thrill of riding on the front of either Andy's or my bike.

We've intended to get Ephram his own bike, a Strider, for about a year.  But his legs are quite short, he still can't reach the pedals of a tricycle at the shortest setting, so we figured he needed to wait a little longer.  Well, Ephram has had two huge growth spurts in the past three months.  (Hence why I keep talking about my guy growing up too quickly!)  He now is 4 pounds heavier than he was when Macie was born, and I'm not sure how many inches taller.  So, finally, it was time for the Strider bike.

We didn't tell him it was coming because we wanted it to be a surprise.  His face lit up when he saw what the UPS guy dropped off on our porch.  He hauled it inside, pulled it up to the coffee table, and started going crazy.

Andy called us about 5 minutes later to tell us he was on his way home from work.  I told him to safely hurry home, he had a little boy just a bit excited for what was inside the box.

Andy got home and we ate a very fast dinner.  Then they set to assembling the bike.  Ephram was so cute.  He picked the seat out of the parts and tried to balance it and sit on it alone.  Then he found the handlebars and put them in both hands, pretending to steer as he ran all over the house.  He was beyond excited.

Finally it was all built.  We let him try it out in the house, even though it was well past his bedtime he rode it for over an hour.

He was a natural.  That was a Thursday and we let him continue to ride it inside the next day.  On Friday morning he ran down, so excited for a chance to ride, that he tried to put his helmet on by himself.  It was a bit backward.

Then on Saturday, it was a beautiful day, so the boys all went out back to ride their bikes.  I am hard pressed to think of a more blissful time in Ephram's life.  The boy truly loves his bike.  He is definitely Andy's son.

Now, just a couple of weeks later he is already coasting along with both feet up.  It won't be too long before he's ready for a traditional bike... and maybe we'll be able to skip the training wheels all together.

The best measure of how much fun he has on his bike is what he always does after he comes inside.

I know I say it often.  But it's true and there's no better way to say it.  I love this boy.