I Don't Remember...

I don't remember it being hard to learn to ride a bike...

This will be the summer that I remember as

"Annie learning to ride a bike summer."

We have been trying to teach her for years. 

YEARS! 

She is on her third brand-new bike,

she keeps outgrowing them before she can ride them.

She is seven.

I keep thinking she will learn...

It is more fun to hit your head on a brick wall

than to teach her to ride a bike.

When I say she has learned, I mean,

she can go forward without training wheels.

She loves it.

She goes zooming around one handle bar with streamers,

as the other was chopped off by her brother,

(causing many tears).

I should feel good now

but I am scared.

She hits parked cars.

Parked!

"WATCH OUT CAR!"

Don't feel bad little car...if she misses you this time,

she'll get you next time.

She drives down the middle of the road.

I only let her go to the mailbox & back (two houses away)

& I hold my breath until she returns safely.

"Get to the side!!!!"

"I AM!"

If we have a car in our driveway...

She will hit it,

probably twice.

If I am sitting in a chair on the driveway.

She will hit me,

probably twice.

Kelly: I'm going to take her for a bike ride.

Me:    No!  She is terrible!  Take her to a bike path.

          She hits parked cars.

Kelly: (Smiles) No, she doesn't.

Me:   Annie! Come here!  Do you hit every parked

         car you pass when you ride your bike?

Annie:  No, not every car.  Most of them, but I missed

         that one today.

She was serious.

We took her to a bike path.

I stayed behind with Roo in the stroller

& Rocco on his scooter.

When we met up, Kel said, "She's horrible!"

I chuckled, "Why?"

"Everytime a person comes by she barrels down the middle

& yells, "WATCH OUT!!!!"

Yesterday, when I was sitting out front watching the kids she slammed in to the garage door.

How can you not see a garage door?!

I just don't remember it being hard.

So, she learned to ride her bike

....now if I can get her to steer & stop,

it will be a miracle.

I'll have to put my biker hopes on Batman.