Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Aly gets a new bike for her birthday


Last week when we met up with the other girls that will be going to Aly's elementary school they decided that we should bring bikes for the kids to ride each week. We had one problem. The only bike we had for Aly was a small 12" bike that didn't have any brakes. She was two when we bought it and we didn't even think to check to see if the bike had breaks. We had never know a bike could be made without breaks.
So we decided that since the other girls will probably be riding around pretty fast we better buy Aly a new bike with breaks. This was perfect timing because two of her Grandma's had sent her money for her birthday so we could use that money towards the purchase of a bike.
I told Aly that on Saturday we would go shopping for her bike. We had already been to walmart and didn't really see anything she had liked. So on Saturday we were going to head to three stores: Kmart, Sports Authority, and Toys R Us. When we got to Kmart she fell in love with the Little Mermaid bike. It was pretty pricey too at $79.99. Then we went to Sports Authority and they only had one hammerhead boys bike, so off to Toys R Us we went. At Toys R Us she fell in love with this bike which was pinkish/red with flowers on it. The best part for me was that is was $49.99 and yes, it had breaks. She also picked out a bike helmet. When we got to the registered I was thrilled to find out that this bike was actually on sale for twenty dollars off which made it 29.99.
I felt like Aly was secretly frugal too--ha, ha. Lucky me to have such a great deal and lucky me that Aly was happy and chose that bike!

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