Anything boys can do...

Last night as we were driving home from dinner, the Princess saw her (boy) friend riding his brand-new bike. No training wheels. She suddenly said "I need to take my training wheels off my bike!" Now, in case you don't know, she is only 4 (until September) and she has never tried to ride a 2-wheeler. So we pulled into the driveway and Daddy started taking the training wheels off her tiny bike while she geared up with helmet and elbow pads. Pink, of course. I suspected that she would fall a few times and her training wheels would be back on within the hour. By the time I ran into the house and grabbed the camera, expecting to get many pictures of her wobbling and falling with Daddy holding onto her seat, she was halfway down the sidewalk. He said he put her on the bike and she just took off. You can see him in the top corner of the picture in a red shirt. This girl is determined that NO boy is going to do anything that she can't. Every night when we tell her that it's bedtime she asks "Are the boys going to bed too?" If they go out to play with friends, she has to go with them. Don't get me wrong, she can get her Diva on at a moment's notice, but she will NOT be left behind!

The funniest part of all this? In our family, you get a new "big" bike as soon as you can ride the little bike without training wheels. But she is so tiny that the next size bike is too big! She says that she will grow enough by her birthday, and she has her sights set on a bright pink Barbie bike with butterflies. With matching helmet, because her current helmet "is not the right color of pink." She's still a Princess.