She will do anything to prove me wrong

For 2 years now, Emily has been telling me that she can't ride a 2 wheeled bike "because she doesn't know how yet". I've been trying to impress upon her the lesson of having to work for her success and how things don't just fall in her lap, she has to work for them.

To that end, Emily jumped on the neighbor boy's bike tonight and just rode it. No training wheels, no one to push her off, no one to hold the bike. She "just knew how" and rode it like she's been doing it for years.

So much for that lesson.

But I learned this matter-of-factly when we were going to softball practice tonight so after we returned home, we got her bike out and gave it a try. And sure enough, she can ride the bike. We gave her a push off to start (her bike is bigger than the neighbor boy's) and she was off and riding.