Riding or racing?

Or should I call it a torture session for mummy. Most days you’d have ridden your bicycle by the time we come home. Otherwise, you would be just about done and the moment you see us, you’d abandon your bicycle (for Ah Kong to wheel home) and hop into our car. We’d either bring you for a car ride or go across the road to the playground.

That one Friday we’d left work early and Ah Ma was just about to bring you out for a bicycle ride. So I changed into something comfy and brought you for a ride. Our house is somewhere almost in the middle of the housing estate and so we could either ride to the left or the right of the long pathway. You decided to turn right (thank goodness.. since it’s the shorter path) and started to cycle. What started out to be a quick walk quickly got faster and faster. As we were walking, Nanna called and you decided to start to ride faster and faster. And no matter how many times I called to you to slow down, you refused to listen. Instead, you seemed to go faster and faster! In the end, I had to hang up on Nanna and start running (yes! Running!) after you and yelling like a crazed lady.

And no you did not stop nor slow down. Instead you kept laughing gleefully and glancing back at me. That was scary as I was afraid you’d veer off the pathway into the road. At long last you stopped only as we got to the end of that road. But of course as we turned back you started to speed away and again I was that mad lady yelling after you. Later on I told Ah Kong that everyone living along that road probably knows your name by now, with me shouting away.

When we reached our road, I wanted to go back, but you were still full of energy. Sigh.. so what to do? I had to make you promise not to ride too fast (or else we’d turn back immediately) and we almost made it to the other end.. er.. probably another 5 roads away before I had to give up. So we headed back home.

So my torture session ended or so I thought. My legs ached for quite a few days and I KO-ed before you did that night. Hhmm.. maybe I should come back early more often for this free exercise and bonding time with you.