Milestone!

Levi and Luke riding in the bowl at the skatepark. Levi is on his scooter!
Levi excited about riding his bike!

Levi riding his bike for the first time!

I have been slack about the blog because they have this odd system of internet here, that you don't pay for the speed of the internet, you pay by the number of megabytes that you use. So at the end of a long month, we were running out of megabytes and now it is the first! Well that and I changed the plan so we have more megabytes, but that started on the first as well.

Today Levi rode a bike for the first time! He has been close for a while but today really got the idea. I had promised him that when he showed any sort of interest in bike riding, I would get him a bike that fit him. So this afternoon, off we went and I bought him a bike. No, we didn't get the Ben 10 bike that was twice the price because it had a cartoon character on it. We just got a regular bike. It was fun to do and then we put it together. Mostly I put it together but he definitely helped. He was excited and wanted to go try it outside.

Now I should have known better. I had been getting Pete (Luke's Dad) to help teach him, because I am bad at that sort of thing. We went out and tried to ride here. The ground is uneven tile and there are sticks and rocks all over. I am not patient enough. I keep thinking that he will pick up this physical stuff really quickly. I forget that he is 9 months younger than all his friends and they haven't been riding their bikes for long either. Anyway I got cranky with him and he cried. We were both tired but the poor little tacker, his Mum should have known that he was that fragile. At night I told him I was sorry and that I would try to do better next time. I need to remember that he is Levi and not more and not less than that. He was very sweet and went to sleep happy, but I need to remember.

I think there is a huge difference between good teaching and good parenting. Perhaps I can hope for one of them, as I certainly don't have both! Of course I also need to just remember to just swallow my pride and let people tell me what to do without reacting. We shall see!!