Summer learned to ride a bike today. The Craigs have a small green bike that Summer had enjoyed riding with training wheels on the front porch. Sometimes she would go outside without telling us, and we'd crack up when we saw her zoom by the living room window. Today, she insisted that we take the training wheels off. We'd tried this back home a few times with a hand-me-down bike that was probably a little too big for her. Allison recommended that we go to a gravel soccer field that's just up the hill. This turned out to be the perfect place since it was very flat, wide, fairly soft, and empty. I held on to her the first time down the field, and after that she took off on her own.
Samantha was a little grumpy at the attention that Summer was getting.
But then she joined in the fun and quickly got over it.
Summer rode for about forty-five minutes before I had to drag her home. She's mostly figured out how to turn and get started on her own, but stopping is still a crapshoot.
(One more unrelated thing. On the way home from Grenoble yesterday we drove through a little rain, and then saw the end of a rainbow actually touching down in a field. We'd never seen that before.)