O'Rourke

 We celebrated the first weekend of spring by getting Conor going without Training Wheels on his bike. Take a look.

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We actually got him a "new" bike courtesy of one of our neighbors that's a bit more BMX like than his current one and turned him loose on it. It took about 3 tries going down the driveway, but he can now go down the driveway and with some helpful pushing to get started make it back up the driveway. We also went all the way out to the Cul-de-Sac, around once and back again with only one stop in the middle. He still has the tendency to want to leap from the bike if things go badly, but we are slowly raising the seat so that he can actually peddle more easily. When he turns now, he is in danger of hitting his knees on the handlbars.

Also, I truncated this video just before he drove right through the large puddle at the end of the driveway and into the 4 foot high snow bank beyond that. He never tipped over though.