The Last Day of a Golden Summer

School starts tomorrow and with it all the craziness begins, but we had one last beautiful day in which David learned to ride a bike without training wheels! Every new skill is so difficult for David to master and so you must bear with my enthusiasm. It was so awesome to see him going and keeping his balance! We were so thrilled and he was so proud! What a great accomplishment to have right before starting 1st grade.

It was entirely coincidental but we read "Mrs. Peachtree's Bicycle" by Erica Silverman today as well which we had picked up from the library last week. It is about an older woman in the late 1800s learning how to ride a bicycle. People keep telling her she is too old and that she should give up trying, but she keeps at it despite many interesting accidents. I had never thought about it because we consider it a childhood rite of passage, but of course when bicycles first came out adults had to learn to ride them. I'm sure it was quite an adventure!