Last spring, to everyone’s amazement, our then four year old boy learned how to ride his two wheeler bike without training wheels. Today…he’s gliding down enormous hills and loving every second of it.

At first all he could do was stay up for a few seconds. Those seconds turned into a few pedals worth of time but he couldn’t steer and would crash into things. Those few pedal revolutions turned into being able to not only stay up for a long period of time but Jakob could also steer out of the way of things like…telephone poles.

Today was a very monumental day. Not only is he riding his bike like a pro but he managed to pedal his way up a large hill in the neighborhood and had no fear at all about flying down the other side…with his mother chasing after him.

Jake and I have been taking our morning walk for about 2 weeks now. To explain more clearly, I walk and Jake rides his bike. He’s a great motivation to keep me going since he is always a ways ahead of me and I’m usually trying to catch up.

We have been making our way all over our neighborhood over the past couple of weeks but we have been avoiding “Jef Hill” (spooky music here) which is a pretty big hill for someone just starting to walk again or for someone that has never ridden their bike up or down a hill in his short life.

Today we both decided that it was time to go up “Jef Hill” (spooky music here). We set out and Jake was kind of nervous about the idea of going down the hill on his bike.

We got to the hill and this little bugger rode right up it. He only needed one little push from me near the top. Then at the top…he saw the down side of the hill.

While I started to explain to him about the fact that his bike has breaks and he could slow down if he wanted…he took off. Down the hill he went. Flying and laughing the whole time. At the end of the hill he slammed on the breaks and pulled a Dukes of Hazard sideways skid.

He was so impressed by himself he had to take one more shot at it before we moved on. So up the hill he peddled again and down he came. Laughing the whole way.

This morning the hills were alive with the sound of…Jakob.