Ellie's 3rd Birthday Present

We gave Ellie her 3rd birthday present after she got home from school.  She asked repeatedly for a "yellow balance bicycle with no pedals".  No if you are asking yourself "What is such a thing?", so did we.  I talked to her teachers at school, and it turns out there is such a thing.  A friend of hers at school has a father who owns a bicycle shop, and they make small bicycles without pedals that toddlers can scoot on, teaching them how to balance.  Its all a little weird to me, but she asked for one incessantly, so low and behold, she came home and found one on the night of her birthday.

First - the "ruse" to get her outside...let's pull Tom on his lion.  And yes folks, Mikey has rigged up a way to pull Tommy on his lion down the street.

She saw the bike at the front of our house from the sidewalk and went running

Ready to take off immediately

Here she goes!

Riding around together - Tom is also holding a balloon.  Ellie got to go to the grocery store and pick out a birthday balloon that day.  Tommy really wanted one as well, plus it was his 9 month birthday.

Celebrating Ellie's birthday is a blast!