Look ma, no training wheels!

About two weeks ago, we took the training wheels off Miss C's bike. She's been telling me her bike is too small and she needs a new one. Before she gets a bigger bike, I told her she needed to learn how to ride it without the training wheels (I figured it would be easier on the little bike). After we took them off, I kind of thought maybe we made a mistake. She's a little cautious when riding her bike and generally doesn't like to go too fast. Well, going fast is kind of important when learning to ride the bike without the training wheels. But I figured we might as well try it. The first day, she did pretty well. I think I counted maybe 3 seconds of her riding it all by herself. After that, we kind of dropped it for the past two weeks. Today I decided we should take her to the basketball court at our neighborhood park and try again. I wasn't expecting too much, and honestly, I was planning on putting them back on after this afternoon. But low and behold, she did it! And she did it the first time she got on the bike too. I couldn't believe that she did it and that she did it so quickly today. She was able to pretty much ride around the entire basketball court without assistance. We ran next to her just in case, but she did it all by herself. She even started up *almost* all by herself, but that still needs a little practice. She's also a little afraid to stop. So we'll have to work on that. But I really couldn't believe it. In fact, I didn't even bring the video camera because I wasn't expecting much (but of course I always have my camera). So here are a few pics of Miss C riding her bike by herself without training wheels!