From 4 to 2

Aubriella was a pro immediately after taking her training wheels off. She asked us for a few days to take them off while she practiced on Gavin's old bike on the back patio. She's a little wobbly once in a while but for the most part she has it. She smiles the entire time and tries to create challenges for herself already (i.e. driving one-handed, asking to go down hills and not applying the brakes, trying to skid out at stop signs). One time, after much begging took place and against my better judgement, I let her go down a steep hill while I waited at the bottom. Good thing I was there because she uncontrollably plowed into me and I had to make her come to an abrupt stop so she didn't go in the street. Being the little dare devil she is, she keeps asking to go back to that particular hill. She usually chooses to bike to a park about a mile from our house while I jog after her, which has given us some mother-daughter time together. At the park she likes to practice the monkey bars, swing spider with me, or climb the little rock wall.