{"id":10537,"date":"2016-05-17T17:45:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T22:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=10537"},"modified":"2016-05-17T17:45:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T22:45:04","slug":"moving-up-in-the-world-no-training-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=10537","title":{"rendered":"Moving up in the world:  No training wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Josiah-riding-with-no-training-wheels-R.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10540\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Josiah-riding-with-no-training-wheels-R.jpg\" alt=\"Josiah riding with no training wheels R\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Josiah-riding-with-no-training-wheels-R.jpg 768w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Josiah-riding-with-no-training-wheels-R-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Josiah has officially graduated to a real bike without training wheels. \u00a0He was actually ready quite a while ago, but my laziness prevented me from pushing him to ride without the wheels sooner. \u00a0When I walk for exercise I didn&#8217;t want to have slow down for him. \u00a0When I&#8217;m in the mood to exercise I want to REALLY exercise. \u00a0So it was just easier to have him stable riding along next to me&#8211;it made for less complaining and less injuries.<\/p>\n<p>I remember it was the exact same way with Chloe.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, when we were moving the story goes that we were cleaning out the garage and she found a bike with no training wheels and asked if she could play with it. \u00a0I said sure, but that she really couldn&#8217;t do anything with it since she can&#8217;t ride without training wheels&#8230; and then I turned around and went back to cleaning out the garage. \u00a0A few minutes later she came running up to me and exclaimed that she could ride the new bike with no training wheels and I smiled and lovingly told her she was wrong. \u00a0 She insisted and brought the bike to me, hopped on, and rode away. \u00a0I stood there mouth agape.<\/p>\n<p>So, Josiah has moved on up in the world. \u00a0He&#8217;s pretty proud of himself. \u00a0Now, if only I wasn&#8217;t pregnant and could actually ride bikes along with them&#8230; \u00a0until then, I&#8217;ll waddle along behind. \u00a0\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Josiah has officially graduated to a real bike without training wheels. \u00a0He was actually ready quite a while ago, but my laziness prevented me from pushing him to ride without the wheels sooner. \u00a0When I walk for exercise I didn&#8217;t want to have slow down for him. \u00a0When I&#8217;m in the mood to exercise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10537"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10541,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10537\/revisions\/10541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}