My First Bike!

I got a bike this week! I'm so excited. It's new to me, but MaMa got it from another family. [Only 5 pounds/$10!] It has a place to carry things in the back that looks like it could hold a hay bale. And it has a little horn (here I am pictured squeezing it). MaMa and DaDa call it a trike, but I call it a "bike."

I keep reminding MaMa that I need a "helmet" for it. I used to say "hat" whenever I saw someone going by on a bike wearing a hat. MaMa told me that it was a special hat called a helmet that people wear to protect their head when they're riding a bike. So I figure I need to have a helmet, too!



We went shopping for a helmet today, but didn't find any. Well, we found one that fit, but it was yellow and covered with baby chicks, and MaMa thought that was pretty naff [click to see definition] and babyish. There was another one covered with airplanes and helicopters, which would have been perfect, but it was too small--believe it or not!

I can't quite push the pedals yet as my legs aren't long enough. But I'm learning to steer with the handles as MaMa or DaDa push it. I like pushing it around, too, when I'm not sitting in it! There's a "parent handle" that MaMa or DaDa lowers all the way down for me to push it around. It's a bit hard, though, to steer it that way!

Yesterday I went to the local playground on my bike. After we were there awhile, DaDa said it was time to go home. I can say "home" and "house" and make the sign for home. But yesterday I learned to say "OUR house!" So all the way home, I kept saying "our house!"