cole loves the biking

our days have been filled with (cole saying 'no', sweating, killing fruit flies, constant demands for crackers) bicycle trips. how fun! ;-) cole and i have been riding everywhere on my bike and loving it. it takes less time to get places by bike than it does by car, perhaps because many of the places we want to go are along the seawall route - beach, pool, park, grocery store. either that or i'm a really slow driver. no - can't be that.

i think that for cole part of the allure of biking is the head gear - he gets to wear his shiny helmet. seriously, he wakes up in the morning and when we bring him out of his room he says "helmet" right off the bat most days ("halm-maa", that is). and aside from riding shotgun on my bike, he loves riding his own.

we got him this convertible tricycle by weeride a little while back, during one of the many trips to various sporting goods stores in search of our co-biking solution. it was a great deal on sale and he sat on it in the store and smiled like a crazy person. we bought it and he rode it back to the car, gleefully squealing all the way. it's a little silly (seatbelt and sun canopy and all) and a bit of a pain to steer (think in straight lines!) but he really has a blast, dinging his bell and showing off for the folks.