Bike Rodeo

Today was the kid's "Bike Rodeo Day" at school and we have been building up this day, and not wearing a dress for Autumn, for a couple of weeks. You wouldn't think you'd have to do that sort of thing, but when someone is as stubborn about only wearing dresses as she is, she has to be very prepared. So, last night we set out her clothes, and hallelujah, we had absolutely no resistance this morning. She put on her black capri style tights with a shirt that I tell her is very much like a dress.

Autumn got to strut her stuff on her princess bike that she is just now really getting the hang of pedaling and controlling. Shelby took her Dora Big Wheel, which she doesn't pedal but moves with her feet on the ground. We actually tried working on pedaling yesterday because her legs are more than long enough to pedal any of her bikes. She understands what is supposed to happen, I think she doesn't quite have the leg strength or something. She can MOVE with her feet on the ground, though!

The bike rodeo was really them just riding their bikes back and forth in the church parking lot. Autumn & Shelby's classes rode at different times and for some reason Shelby's class went out early and came in early (I think there were too many kids outside from other classes) so I only saw her for a couple of minutes and didn't get any pictures. I was in limbo between going up there to watch Shelby and then waiting to watch Autumn so Autumn's teacher invited me to their class. I spent about 40 minutes in Autumn's class as they did their normal daily things and that was a lot of fun. Autumn was so happy that I was there and it was neat to see how all of the kids interacted.

Autumn's teacher Ms. Deana racing the kids...

Autumn decided to play crossing guard and was having the kids all stop in a line. They listened amazingly well to her.