A few posts down I wrote about how sometimes we just wish we could go on a family bike ride. Katie has tried different bikes before and she can ride it a few feet very slowly with pain and frusteration.
UNTIL TODAY!!!!
At therapy I was talking to her therapist about my desire to get a Madsen Bike and she said "oh, I bet Katie could ride a Rifton".
I was skeptical because the bikes we have tried in the past just frustrated us. So today when Katie sat on the Rifton and her therapist strapped her in and I saw her start to peddle.... and then keep peddling... by herself...
...and peddled more...
...until she peddled by herself around the entire building!!! My eyes could not believe what I was seeing!
I kept saying "WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW!!!"
We then took the bike outside and as she rode all around the play ground, I could not hold back the tears and just started to cry. I could not believe what I was witnessing!!
Katie was really riding a bike!
By herself.
I am crying again as I type this just thinking about it!!
That's it.
We need a Rifton in our life.
I wish I had my camera with me so I could share the joy. We are taking Bryant back this week to therapy to show him and I'll for sure bring my camera and Kleenex!
16 comments:
aaaamazing! thanks for sharing! i hope you can get it!
CHARGE BABY CHARGE IT~! VISA! I WANT TO SEE PICTURES!
AHHH! Go Katie!
We have to raise the money so she can get one! How expensive are they?
Oh this is absolutely wonderful!!!! Let's do a fundraiser and get that pretty girl peddling! --- Karen Orr
YES!! have Katie do a bike fundraiser I would send her money!~
AMAZING!!!!!
O.k., I love you all!
Seriously after I posted this I have received phone calls, emails, and FB messages about fundraising ideas and how so many want to help!!! Wow! I am so excited and so humbled!
My dear friend Heather had a great idea:
A RIDE-A-THON!!!
So I talked to the therapist to see if we could borrow their bike and Katie could do a few laps and we could cheer her on and have a bake sale and lemonade/diet coke stand and turn it into a fun event!!!!
I love it!
Therapy is going to get back to me mid week to see if we can pull it off.
fingers crossed!!!
I got goose bumps reading that! I hope we can sell a lot of your headbands on Saturday!
We have bought several things from them and love them. I had a friend that got that bike covered from Harbor Regional Center. I would look into that first if I were you. Who knows.... maybe just maybe!!!
This is soooo exciting!!!!
Ride Katie Ride!
I'm sooo excited for her and your family. I will do what ever you need me to to help you get that bike.
Katie's the bomb! She learned to ride a bike faster than it took me to relearn, haha! Seriously, she was probably stoked out of her mind. Riding a bike for a kid has got to be one of the most liberating feelings in the world! And for the fundraiser can we please make Bryant wear a tux with a gold cummerbund and slicked back hair?
Caleb rides one as well at his school, I am just so annoyed that everything that is "adapted" is so stinkin much!! Makes me mad. But way to go Katie!!
What a perfect idea! You need to get this somehow!!! Please make a post about it if you decide to do the fundraiser thing.
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