Trike!

Asher has had quite a conversion over the last couple of months from being a *fairly* laid-back baby to, honestly, quite a fusser.  I attribute a lot of it to body-not-caught-up-with-mind syndrome.  The kid has been so ready to crawl, run and jump with his big brother, but his body hasn't quite worked it out yet.  He's been rocking on all 4's for months now.  He ooches backward, spins around, and throws himself forward by half a foot at a time (sometimes landing in a face-plant, which he doesn't enjoy), but he just hasn't coordinated crawling yet.  He's getting there, but slowly.

Well, I just had to steal my fabulous friend Isabelle's idea.  As an aside, she is Scotch, South African, and German...and is shortly moving to Tokyo.  If that's not the true definition of multicultural, what is!  She shared some pictures of her little Evie (just a bit older than Asher) on a trike, strapped in, and she seems to looooove it.  (Aside from a recent mishap which landed her in the hospital...umm, read about that literally 3 minutes after setting up the trike I bought for Asher.  She is fine now, praise the Lord, and I decided to press on.)  Asher has been getting a kick out of riding it, but I don't think quite as much as Evie does.  He likes it if he is riding toward Owen, then he's all giggles.  But if he's riding so that he can't see anyone directly, same response as a stroller...no thank you!  (Aren't kids supposed to like stroller rides?  Neither of mine have at this age.)

Well, they have been having fun.  Owen especially loves riding with anyone else, makes it much more fun than riding alone!  He is quite a speedy daredevil on his bike these days, enough that I get scared he will wipe out :}  But once we get the helmet on I can relax and he zips around.  He loves to crash into Asher on the trike!