Maxwell Rides His Bike

After several weeks of practice, Max successfully rode his bike without training wheels today for the first time! We bought him a bike here in Denmark shortly after he started school at Bodøgården, because each Friday the kids bring their bikes to school and the teachers take them out riding on a track near the school. (Danish Disclaimer: We realize that Bodøgården is NOT a school and that the employees there are NOT teachers. Its a daycare and they are pedagogues. I'm just using the annoying American convention of calling all such settings "schools" and all the people who work there "teachers".) For the past several weeks, we would bring Max's bike, but he was unable to ride it without help. The teachers would help him a little bit, but they couldn't push him and watch all the other kids at the same time, so each week, we'd come home from school and help Max practice in our driveway. Well, all that practice paid off, as Max can now ride his bike on his own! He's very happy and we are, of course, very proud of him!

Here's Max on his bike, getting ready to ride:





Leysia and Lilja, of course, are happy to watch Max's latest accomplishment.



And, now you can too!





Way to go Max!

Ken