William's New Bike...

As many of you have witnessed, William picked up a pretty mean thumb-sucking habit a couple of years ago. Well, a week ago he came up to me and said he wanted a new bike because he is a big boy now. I told him he was right about the bike (his old one is little and his knees go up around his ears when he peddles) but maybe he could earn a big boy bike by not sucking his thumb for a few days. He agreed to seven days and we set up a sticker chart to mark his progress. Well, to make a long story much shorter, this was eight days ago and he hasn't touched the thing. He has a pretty strong will and it was incredible to see him make a decision to do something difficult and see it through completely on his own. We went to the store and he picked out his bike and he is already riding it (see below) pretty well for the first day out of training wheels. The bug is growing up...