Riding our bikes

We have been doing a lot of bike riding this summer. Both kids are still using the strider bikes (bikes without pedals but forces them to practice balancing because they don't have training wheels either). Emmy is still trying but is very cautious and moves slow. Bo is going really fast now and she sees that so tries to keep up.

Bo basically is ready for a real bike. He goes up around our court all by himself several times. On the way back to the house, it is slightly down hill so he can coasts down pretty fast. He is balancing really well. We have one of Kinley's old bikes which is the only real bike we have so we had Bo attempt it. He was a little nervous about falling and didn't really get how to pedal quite yet. However, he was balancing really well. I think the fact he wasn't moving or pedaling made it harder to balance then if he was just going on his own. Here is a video of me trying to hold the back of his seat and making him try to pedal on the Barbie bike. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpckit2i0Vg