Sunday, April 3, 2011

Our first bike ride...not exactly successful

No April Fool's Day (or a couple days late) jokes here.  Temps were up near 70 this afternoon!  Laundry was on the line, the doors were allowing a nice, fresh breeze to enter the house, and Landon and I headed out to give his bike a test run. 

Landon has been used to riding his bike in the house, and hasn't wanted to take it outside.  I think he was mostly afraid of getting it dirty.  But I convinced him it was time to give it a try.  
So he strapped on his helmet and headed down the driveway.
We did several trips to the shop and back.  Landon really seemed to be getting the hang of it!
Here is a video of him riding as well.
Hills, however, seemed to be too big of an obstacle.  So, it was off the bike and time to push.
Our "Yay Landon" quickly turned into, "Oh no Landon!"

Daddy came home, and it was time for Landon to show Daddy his mad bike riding skills.  Landon took off like a pro.  Only that same hill that was so hard to ride up, was way to easy to ride down.  We were not far and quickly took off, but neither of us could catch him in time.  The bike went down and so did Landon.  There was blood...and tears...and my stomach was in knots.

The end result...
Seriously...my poor baby.
Um, it may be just a smidge before I can get Landon on his bike again. Seriously, the poor thing.

2 comments:

Lisa said...

Oh no! Poor Landon! Not a good way to start off 'enjoying' the warm weather! Hopefully it heals quickly and he's able to hope back on the bike and show it who's boss!

Stacy Merrill said...

He was so funny this morning - he walked past his bike in the garage, kicked the tire and said, "I don't like you Spiderman." Too cute!