Trike-a-thon

March 13, 2008 St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital Trike-A-Thon

The kids have been talking about getting to ride their bikes at school for the charity event. The day came, and Kristopher didn't want to take his bike, and Elisabeth was so excited about being about to do this. In years past, the entire gym area had been used to the event, but this year, the school decided to only use half of it. Miss Kim said it was because in years past, the children would get overwhelmed after just a lap or 2. So that's how it came about to only using half of it this time. The kids were so excited and luckily they had extra trikes and things to ride so Kristopher was able to scoot around on one of those.
They went in groups of 4 and our 2 were in the first group. Elisabeth grabbed her helmet and I helped her put it on. Kristopher was right behind her waiting for me to put his helmet on too. This is the first time he wanted his helmet on, all of last summer he didn't get to ride his bike because he would not wear his helmet. Needless to say, I was extremely pleased by this. Thank the Lord that he realized the reason for the helmet was for his own safety and he wanted to be a big boy just like everyone else.
As they were making the laps, Kristopher made everyone obey the imaginary traffic signals and he decided to have a few crashes along the way too, as you'll see in the pictures. He would tell everyone RED LIGHT and I had to change the light to green. He made it around 19 times, which is pretty good since he still has yet to learn to pedal and he was scooting the whole time. Elisabeth went around 40 times. She could have gone more if we let her but Miss Kim kept all the kids in 30 minute intervals.
I was so proud of how well they did. I got some good video too, and when I learn how to load 8mm video into my computer, I'll be able to show you all. And now that the weather is much nicer out the kids have both wanted to be constantly outside. Which I am so happy about because this winter has just been treacherous and cabin fever has really set in around here.