Sammy Rides a Bike

Sammy learned to ride his bike without training wheels today.

It took all of about 10 minutes for him to learn.

Here's the story:

Daniel and Sammy come back from riding their bikes (Sammy with training wheels) around the block. Daniel says he wants to ride by himself because it is too hard to stay with Sammy (because Sammy is too slow). Daniel likes to ride fast and as he likes to say, "fell the wind in my hair". Sammy, not one to be left behind, basically says, "That's it, I'm taking these training wheels off." Dan is all excited and starts whipping out the tools to detach the wheels. "Wait a minute, Sammy," I say (the voice of reason), "You don't know how to ride yet." "Yeah I do," Sammy says confidently and Dan proceed with the training wheel removal. I have to admit I was pretty skeptical. It took Daniel a while to learn how to ride and the best place to learn is in a big wide open space, not our small cul-de-sac. Well, Sammy jumps on his newly de-wheeled bike and Dan pushes him around for a while and the next thing I know Sammy is riding on his own. You can tell how excited he was by the big smile on his face. Way to go Sammy! You amaze me every day.