Matilda went for her first "street" bike ride today. She's getting really good at pedaling and laps around the courtyard aren't quite enough now. Usually with any obstacle she stops pedaling and the trike becomes a push toy - but today, M even rode UP a ramp, albeit with much encouragement and my foot behind her to prevent backsliding when she'd give up every few feet. She was also wailing that she couldn't pedal up the hill while simultaneously screaming for me to stop touching the bike, but at the top Matilda was quite pleased with herself and all was forgiven/forgotten. (She gets frustrated really easy in some tasks, or possibly just has a short fuse.)
Along the way we stopped to say hi to the pigeons that are raised in a cage outside a neighboring apartment building. The owner was out for the first time so we got to talk with him and he showed Matilda these new baby pigeons. I thought they were a bit alarming looking, but Matilda was enthralled and it took a lot of encouragement to get her to leave.
It seems to have been the week of baby birds around here, since we got to visit baby doves at Sarah & Gaurav's condo complex also. We visited the first day the little doves were flying so we were lucky to see them before they disappeared. Matilda & I spent a fair amount of time stalking them around the hallways & giving them reason to practice their new skills.
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