Thomas the Train and Bikes?

Last night Gma Beth and Gpa Tim brought over Nico's early birthday present, a Thomas the Train Bike. Now I think I have finally seen it all....Thomas stickers, toys, shirts, pants, coats and now bikes.....whoever invented Thomas sure had my child in mind! So I regress.....

Oh yea the bike, Gpa Tim brought it over in the box for Nico and him to put together. Nico was to hold the tools and hand them to Gpa when he asked, but of course the Thomas the train markings on the bike was all that he could concentrate on! After getting the pieces out starting with the back tire, moving to the handle bars, then onto the seat and finally the training wheels.....we'll maybe not finally because of course we had to put on the Thomas the Train emblems too!

We had to take it for a test drive of course, how could we not??? So Nico climbed up on the seat like a big boy he has become and Mommy close by taking pictures the whole time because Nico doesn't do anything in his life without a camera in his face. He started to roll down the driveway as everyone must of forgot has an incline, and I grabbed his arm as he started to fall to avoid a big mess and into the street! He was OK, thankfully but my heart stopped for just a few minutes thinking the worst and although I know that is not the first of the falls off the bike hopefully they won't be to bad.

Now the biggest challenge for me is teaching him to peddle, any advice out there for teaching an almost 3 year how to ride a bike?

Hope everyone has a great Labor Day Weekend and until next time....