Strider

For Luke's second birthday we got him a strider bike-- it's a bike without pedals, which teaches kids to balance on two wheels so the learning curve with a real bike will be less steep. Since he's a stubborn kid, who likes to do things on his own terms, he hasn't touched it since then. Though his friends are zipping around town on their striders, Luke still wasn't interested. And he recently told us that he doesn't want to go on the strider, he just wants to move straight to a "pedal bike." 

Until this week. Suddenly, he's all about the strider! 

Here he is showing off a little...