Geared up and cruis'n

It's still up for debate whether Katelynn likes her helmet and knee pads better or her new bike, but either way she made some great progress today on the big girl bike. She can now pedal it continuously. She needs a push to get going, but once she starts she can keep pedaling. Now she just needs to get moving on her own and pick up speed and she'll be a pro!

Her jeep is currently her favorite set of wheels outdoors. If you would have seen her with this last year, you never would have imagined she would love it as much as she does now. She was scared of it and hardly ever wanted to ride it. If she got in it at all, she would want someone to push the pedal with a broom stick to make it go. At her birthday in October, she finally started showing some interest and now she is a pro at it. When she started riding it this spring, she couldn't steer it or reverse it, but as I watched her today, she really can get that jeep to go anywhich way she wants. As I was taking pictures tonight, she was cruising circles around me and moving away just in time to not hit me. This would be why I have a blurry but super cute face in the second picture.