Goodbye training wheels...almost!

One of our little neighbor girls who is about Ashten's age just learned to ride her bike without training wheels. Since seeing her ride with just two wheels, Ashten decided that she wanted her training wheels off also. Over the weekend Jared gave in to her request and finally took them off. I think she was a little surprised to find out that it was harder than she thought. Jared and Ashten practiced for a while and she did actually really well, but she was starting to get frustrated with not being able to ride on her own so we decided to just put one training wheel back on. This was a trick that a friend had told us that they did when their kids were learning to ride w/o training wheels. Putting the one back on was just what she needed to feel more comfortable. The bike will still tip to the side that's missing the training wheel, but she is learning to just put her leg down to catch herself. Every so often Jared has been changing the one training wheel to the opposite side so that she won't get too comfortable with leaning a certain way. Hopefully if won't be long before she will decide that she is ready to do it on her own.