The 2 wheeler

For a couple months now, Tyse has been telling me that he wanted me to take the training wheels off his bike. However, I knew this would entail a long process of me running next to him and holding the seat, neither of which I can do while chasing Emitt or holding Ollie. So I kept putting him off, telling him it had to wait until both babies were asleep. Well, last week he came home from the neighbors looking for a wrench. Why? Well, he said, the neighbor's mom was going to take his training wheels off for him. I felt slightly guilty and slightly sad that he didn't want me to be a part of it- I had put it off too long! Fortunately, it was right when both of the babies were sleeping, so I pulled out the wrench and we got to it. I got the wheels off, and then I let him jump on and start pedaling. By the time we were at the neighbor's house ( a mere 15 feet away) he had pulled away from me and was off- never falling, never hesitating, and rode around the entire block and didn't crash until he didn't know how to get off. So he ran into the tree post in front of our house. He has never looked back- although that same day, about 2 hours later, I was outside and he was riding his bike, and he started whining and crying, saying "I will NEVER learn how to do this! Never!" He hadn't crashed yet on his bike, so I was a little confused. I asked him what it was that he was never going to get and he was very sad to say he hadn't yet learned how to ride one handed. I assured him that it takes longer than 2 hours to learn this task, but he has, in the last 7 days, learned it, as well as how to stand up, how to ride with his feet stuck to the front fork, how to go off the curb, through the bushes and grass, and how to ride as fast as he can down the 35 foot hill at our local park, dodging the bushes and trees that line the slope. I guess the mountain biking traits are kicking in!
Oh- forgot to mention- thanks for reminding me, katie-
Tyse has also gotten good at riding his bike through wet cement-
we have been having our alley fixed because of the cruddy cement they laid the first time. Tyse's friend came over in the morning they had just laid a new piece right outside our driveway, and happened to notice a large flaw in the cement. Here is a picture of the guy trying to fix it- he had already finished fixing half of the original...Anyway, his friend was on his way to our house and forgot that he wasn't supposed to go through the alley, and then didn't realize the cement was wet. Poor kid- when I happened to see it, I looked around to see what happened and he was standing in our driveway staring at it with this look on his face like- "uh, oh. I am in SO much trouble!"
So he came over and we talked a little about it, making sure he didn't think I was mad at him or anything because it was written all over his face that it was an accident. Apparently for my son's sake, I should have sounded a little more angry, because after he was told he couldn't ride home with his friend, he proceeded to ride into the alley, ride through the same wet cement 6 times, get caught by the mexican workers, and brought home with wet cement all over his bike and shoes. Just another thing he did on his 2-wheeler.