This weekend we went shopping for ski gear for the baba’s and ended up with trikes!!!

I happened like this:
We walked into a super warehouse of sporting equipment called Decathalon.
The first thing I spied from the door was a little blue and red trike with a parent handle. My eyes lit up! I grabbed Jake out of the stroller and plopped him into the trike. Huge smiles! He loved it!
We found a little pink one for Ava. She loved it!

My excitement was so overwhelming that I could not hold the camera still:

 

After a lovely jaunt around the store, we loaded ourselves and the trikes in the back of our SUV and headed home.

Once home, I assembled trike #1 with my 2 helpers eagerly handing me pieces and tripping over parts. We got pinkie’s together and off she went with Daddy – grinning from ear to ear as she rambled down our little cobblestone sidewalk.

Trike #2 was easier to assemble, although I had a very anxious little boy helping me. He would help for a few minutes, then spend a few minutes seeing if he could knock Ava off hers so he could ride it.

At last, both trikes were together.

The whole family screeching down our little road!

It’s so fun to see the babies pure delight with the outdoors and fascination with these new wheeled toys. I’ve actually raced home from work this week in anticipation of pushing the baba’s in their new toys.

I’m pretty sure that I am more excited about the trikes than my toddlers.
I love being able to re-live childhood!