Sterling rides his bike!

Sterling learned to ride his bike without training wheels on December 30, 2008! We have been trying to teach him to ride for a while, and he just wasn't motivated...but with this new active lifestyle we've been doing there've been many times when it would have been nice for Sterling to ride a bike...he's getting heavy to pull on the bike and heavy in the jogger (stroller)! So, we came up with this idea to bribe him! Yes, we do bribe our children! Maybe bribing isn't the best word....I'll say instead we have a bonus program in place. Anywho..we told him once he learned to ride his bike, we'd buy him some Heelies, which he's been asking for for a long time. After we told him that, he put on his helmet, went outside, found one of his friends (9 year old boy who lives across from us), and learned to ride his bike in about 10 minutes! His friend came and knocked on the door and asked me if I wanted to come outside and watch Sterling ride his bike around the circle! He was so proud of himself it was so cute! So, we promptly got ready and went to the store to go pick out his Heelies! He's so cute with his love of red...he didn't like many
of the shoes because they weren't the right color, but he finally settled on some that had red and grey. We really lucked out with the timing of his learning-since it was right after Christmas they were on sale..we paid $15 for his Heelies (yea for us!). But, since he was so picky about color (and we wanted to get one of the pairs on sale) he got some that are almost big enough for me! They're a size 5 in men...(I wear a 5 1/2) so when we came home and put on 2 pairs of socks and he tried wearing them...they just weren't comfortable, so they're just sitting in the shoe closet now, waiting for the day when Sterling rides again :D