Andy has been talking about getting Evan a dirtbike since the day he was born. In fact, if I would've encouraged it, he probably would've bought one when I was still pregnant. But, now that Evan is getting close to 5 years old, I couldn't hold him back any longer. Andy and Evan have been riding around the neighborhood together for a couple of weeks, with Andy gradually doing less and less, until they got to the point where Evan was driving and Andy was just riding along. Today he decided it was time to let Evan go on his own, so we went out behind our house where they've cleared out everything to start a new phase in our subdivision. He actually did really well. It's kind of impressive how quickly he picks this kind of stuff up. With his bicycle, Andy took the training wheels off mainly because he's so rough on things that the training wheels were all busted up, and Evan took off with no problems. He pretty much did the same thing today. This is his first time alone and he did great. He fell a couple of times, which made him a little skiddish, but he was fine. In the shortest video clip (the last one that just appears black but still works) I cut it off so quick because I was supposed to catch him, which I did pretty well almost every time. One of the times he forgot to hit the breaks and flew past me. I even learned to start it up all by myself, which is really nothing to brag about. It was a lot of fun, though, and pretty exhausting for us all.
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