This was a big one! We wanted to go big! I wanted to get G a bike, and we spent almost an hour in Toys-R-Us bike shopping. But everything they had that she liked was the same design as the piece of crap she currently has, and she was just as unable to pedal in the store as at our house. This design with pedals on the front wheel may seem like a good idea to the knuckleheads at toy companies who have never ridden a bike and realized that a seat above and behind the line of the pedals force you to dig your weight into the wheel and work against your pedalling motion, if your tinyLegs can even reach and your tinyButt can stay on the seat. Did they ever have a beta tester?

There was a 10 inch bike with an actual drivetrain, but she didn’t seem strong enough for it and it seemed too cramped in the cockpit. And the 12 inch bike she was afraid of.

This was harder than buying the Heckler!

So we went for a bunch of smaller things. I got G a $5 raincoat from Goodwill for our upcoming CO trip, and a tiny camping chair. Beckie got her a giant teddy bear and some sand toys. Becikie presents were more sexy, but mine more functional. She will thank me, in ways she does not realize. The coat is huge, Better to cover more of t.Human than less. The chair is not pink, as I am leery of all the gender-roling G will face — I certainly do not need to contribute to that.

Some photos of the party: