No more training wheels!

We went camping recently with a bunch of families from our church.  All the kids brought their bikes and rode around the campground for hours.  Some of the kids that were Eliana's age rode their bikes without training wheels.  Eliana was still using training wheels and asked us to take them off...

So, a couple of weekends ago, we drove to a local middle school where they had a track that was made out of the rubberized material--thinking that if Eliana fell, she wouldn't get hurt too badly.

We raise the wheels on one side and she seemed to ride fine.  Then we raised the other side.  Elvin ran alongside and behind Eliana some of the time....

The other kids brought their bikes as well.  Karina wanted her training wheels off too.  But Elvin had his hands full already and so we told her we would do that at another time.

And here is Gabriel on this trike.  He is still learning to steer.  He can steer when he wants to.  But he has the attention span of a goldfish and after about one minute something else will catch his attention, and he will forget to steer.

 Eliana had a great time.  By the end of the 1.5 hour session, we had both training wheels raised.  She was a tiny bit wobbly, but got the hang of it really quickly!  She never fell once!

Here she is riding like the wind!