The Bike

We just had our Just Between Friends sale, it's the best place to buy things for kids without spending an arm and a leg. It's a giant consignment sale. People sell their stuff and other people can buy it for a good price. Everything is used, but it's the best way to get hand me down items. This year I volunteered at the sale, because I ran out of things to sell. Volunteers get to shop first at the sale and I worked the volunteer sale, so I got to see everything before the sale opened.

My main goal was to get Ella a bike. We figured a bike would be a good 6 months birthday present (can't believe she is going to be 2 1/2 soon).  She is at that age where she is ready to learn how to ride a bike, also she ogles over them every where we go.  If we are at the store or the park and sees them, she wants one. We took her to Walmart just to look at bikes and too see what size of bike she could ride and to test out how well she would do. She did great, but she only wanted the pretty pink princess bikes. Lucky for her I got the last princess bike at the sale for well under what a new one costs.

So far she is doing great. She never had a trike so this is all new to her. She starting to get the hang of the pedaling thing, we just need more sunny weather to practice. She has been going on the patio and practicing there, and she can get three rations in before she has to be turned around, which is pretty good for just learning. She does a great job of getting on and off the bike, and of course, she has the horn honking down real well.  Here are some pictures of her on her new bike.

Daddy showing her how to pedal

That is a happy girl