I don’t know if she recently grew a lot or if I just noticed, but she suddenly looks like a giant to me, especially on this tricycle. She was about 18 months when the neighbors handed it down to her so she couldn’t ride it much then, but there’s something about a bike like this where you can really see how much they’ve grown. She could barely sit on the bike, then would walk it and never used the peddles, then started learning to use the peddles (still working on that) and steering seems to be the most difficult. Watching her learn each phase on this tricycle has been fun, but it tugs at the mama heart strings a bit.

And because I’m being nostalgic, here’s one from a year ago…

And one from when she first got it