Justin's New Bike

Here's Justin with his brand new bicycle, a gift from Grandma for his 4 1/2 birthday. (For those of you who don't know all of our family's idiosyncrasies...Justin date of birth is December 20 but his birthday celebration and party every year are on his half birthday...it just works better that way).

He's been on two wheels for almost a year now, but at 45 inches tall he was starting to look a little silly on his 12 inch starter bike. It was time to upgrade. Now we have an 18 inch shiny "Dodger blue" bike with lightning and hand brakes, and boy do we feel cool. I think the 50% upgrade in wheel size has more than doubled the speed he's able to achieve. We rode (thank goodness for my scooter) about an hour and half this afternoon. Once we had mastered the court yard we even ventured out onto the street and he enjoyed taking the speed bumps at high speed. He's still getting used to dismounting from a bigger bike, but it's just a sign that my little boy is not so little anymore. Doesn't he look grown up?!
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Things we're anticipating in the next two weeks: 1 baseball birthday party, 2 sessions of church TBall, 1 field trip to House of Bounce, 1 friend visiting from out of town, 2 4th of July parades, 1 potluck, 4 days of tent camping with friends...who could want any more!