Bike, a girl's best friend
We now have a bike-riding, helmet-wearing girl. Hard to believe!! Yes it has training wheels and all that, but it's so amazing to look out the kitchen window and see Sierra riding a BIKE!
The story of how the bike was acquired is worth recording for posterity. Last summer we were walking down our street when we saw a bike parked near the sidewalk ahead of us. Sierra went running up to it and we were trying to explain to her that it was somebody's bike and that she couldn't get on it when we noticed that there was a huge sign taped on it saying "FREE". Uh, well.... I guess it is your bike, Sierra! So we pushed the thing home and she was much too small for it at that point, so we put it in the basement figuring that she would forget all about it and we would bring it out later. Well, she never did forget about it--in fact if anyone referred to her trike as a "bike," she would say, "Oh, I have a bike, but I can't ride it--it's in the basement!"
Well, a couple of months ago we were at the symphony and we saw a colleague of Jonathan's so we went over to say hello. They introduced us to some friends of theirs who were just that week moving from one house to another. Their old house was on our street, so Jonathan's colleague was commenting about how we had been neighbors. I asked which house was theirs and for some reason it sounded sort of familiar.... I asked if the summer before they had put out a little pink girls' bike with a FREE sign on it. In fact, they had! Their daughter, who the bike had belonged to, was there at the symphony and we got to meet her and tell her that we were now the proud owners of her little bike! It was pretty wild!
Back to the present: since it has started getting nicer this spring, Sierra has been talking about the bike nonstop and I didn't think she was big enough for it yet, so we were still waiting to bring it up. Then Grandpa figured out that the seat could actually be lowered another 4 inches or so and bingo, now she can actually reach the pedals and propel the thing by herself. It's pretty cool!
The story of how the bike was acquired is worth recording for posterity. Last summer we were walking down our street when we saw a bike parked near the sidewalk ahead of us. Sierra went running up to it and we were trying to explain to her that it was somebody's bike and that she couldn't get on it when we noticed that there was a huge sign taped on it saying "FREE". Uh, well.... I guess it is your bike, Sierra! So we pushed the thing home and she was much too small for it at that point, so we put it in the basement figuring that she would forget all about it and we would bring it out later. Well, she never did forget about it--in fact if anyone referred to her trike as a "bike," she would say, "Oh, I have a bike, but I can't ride it--it's in the basement!"
Well, a couple of months ago we were at the symphony and we saw a colleague of Jonathan's so we went over to say hello. They introduced us to some friends of theirs who were just that week moving from one house to another. Their old house was on our street, so Jonathan's colleague was commenting about how we had been neighbors. I asked which house was theirs and for some reason it sounded sort of familiar.... I asked if the summer before they had put out a little pink girls' bike with a FREE sign on it. In fact, they had! Their daughter, who the bike had belonged to, was there at the symphony and we got to meet her and tell her that we were now the proud owners of her little bike! It was pretty wild!
Back to the present: since it has started getting nicer this spring, Sierra has been talking about the bike nonstop and I didn't think she was big enough for it yet, so we were still waiting to bring it up. Then Grandpa figured out that the seat could actually be lowered another 4 inches or so and bingo, now she can actually reach the pedals and propel the thing by herself. It's pretty cool!
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