A new trike?

Tomorrow (12/13) is Landon's 3rd Birthday.  I honestly can not believe he is 3 already, but anyway...We planned for Landon to celebrate with his family last night (12/11).  I had the lasagna's ready, the party supplies purchased and the cake bought, but Mother Nature had other plans.  She dumped a whopping 7" of snow on us last night and then the winds kicked up to 45 mph.  There was no way anyone was going to make it out here for the Birthday Party, so we canceled it.  :-(  

Let's say the snow drifts were so high at our house that Jer got the truck and plow stuck at least once today.  He spent a good 6 hours plowing us out.  Landon and I did not venture outside to play as the high this morning was 9 degrees.  Brrr....

And why would we need to go outside when Landon got his early birthday present.  We planned on giving Landon his new bike at his party last night, but held off until this morning.  Here is the video of Landon getting his new trike bike!

Landon loves spiderman, and I think that was the icing on the cake for him.  A big bike and it's spiderman and a matching spiderman helmet.  He is in love!

He loved the helmet so much he didn't want me to take it off so I could take it out of the package!

The hardest part that Landon is still getting used to is not being able to back up.  He is so used to riding his trike and zipping all over the house with it.  He pedals his trike backwards to back up and he can't do that with the bike.  His bike is also much bigger than his trike so I have moved it down stairs.  There is plenty of room upstairs but the bike is still a little big for him and hard to pedal.  The carpet does not make pedaling any easier, so the tile downstairs is the best riding spot. 

The helmet came with a matching horn as well.  Landon loves the squeaky horn - Elke, not so much.

Landon has pretty much spent all day on his bike!  He did take a break for a little bit to ride in the truck with Daddy to push some snow.  He also thought that was pretty cool!