Five is a magic number! Now that Child #4 has reached this important milestone, he is writing his letters and numbers facing correctly, listening better, and has more chores. This morning we informed him his training wheels would be removed from his bike.Today we skipped church and headed out to the public school that my boys would attend if they were not homeschooled. We decided that with the rainy season approaching and DH's busy time of year here, we should take full advantage of fine weather and spend every moment we can together and outside.
Some of the school buildings are currently surrounded by a chainlink fence with signs that say "No Tresspassing" and "Danger" because the building was condemmed last year! Not exactly a place where you would want to send your child to be educated five days a week. This year our school district has started five full days per week for Kindergarten. That's too much for those poor kids!
So the boys rode their training wheel-free bikes while their little sister ran after them. She really ran. Like a quarter-mile track without stopping! The kids also played on the playground equipment and played animal games under the trees. The only bike accidents we had were Child #3 crashing into his little sister. Child #4 took to bike riding without training wheels like a fish takes to water. Of course I should have expected him to ride so well.
