A bike ride

We’d been talking about taking all the kids on a bike ride at a park nearby and Sunday we decided to just do it even though it was dinner time.  We gave everyone a granola bar and loaded up the car.  I thought I’d forgotten how to ride my bike it had been so long but I persevered even with Gibson on the back.  We had a rough start.  Linden had to be reminded how to use his brakes and Channing had to be taught how to use the brakes.  (The road is a little hilly.) Once we did one go around though everyone wanted to do it again, even Stefan who I didn’t think was going to make it after the first 5 minutes.  He had been doing lots of teaching.  Channing was a superstar.  With her tiny wheels she pedals about 5 times more than the rest of us and never complained.

 

 

And as a side note, we decided this past weekend with 4 kids that someone is bound not to be happy.  Hadley was upset on Friday about the movie we chose for movie night.  Before we went on our bike ride Linden was throwing a fit because he didn’t want to go.  The worst part is that we are trying to fun things and children are still complaining.  We are working on our attitude and how to instill gratefulness. Apparently we have more work to do.  The good news was that everyone loved the bike ride so much they’ve all asked to do it again.