Christopher's had this plastic Diego tricycle for over a year now. When he first got it, for his 2nd birthday I think....could have been 3rd birthday...probably his 3rd come to think of it...regardless, he couldn't reach the pedals, but he seemed to always want to ride it around. He discovered, after some time, that pushing a trike with your feet while trying to overt the large obstructing rear tires was too much of an annoyance. Because of this, the trike was put on the afterburner for some time. As this winter has been very mellow this year, we've had time to pull out some of the larger warm-weather toys (such as the Red Flyer wagon and Red Flyer scooter as well as the Diego trike). After we got the trike out of the shed, Christopher was immediately drawn to it...salivating like Pavlov's dog at this new potentially amazingly fun challenge. We quickly discovered that Christopher had either gone through, we think, or hit another growth spurt and has apparently shot up about 6"-8" since his birthday last year. He could now reach the pedals. We've been trying and trying to get him to pedal on some of the stationary pedaling toys we have in the house, and have been very unsuccessful at achieving this goal. A couple of weeks ago, we were able to finally put this pedaling demon to rest as he quickly processed and applied the methodology of pedaling a trike...very successfully I might add. It was pretty cool. He did pretty good on the slight decline that goes down the street to the left of our house, but needed some, only some, assistance climbing the slight incline back to the house. I think I might be able to chalk that up to a great success for the boy! Good job, Kid Hyper.
