On our second time around the loop, Analee stopped at various places and asked me to take her picture.
Back story for this photo: A year ago when Analee had barely, BARELY learned to ride a bicycle, we decided to encourage her by taking the whole family to Freeman Park on a ride. Analee was upset when she scraped her shin on the pedal of her two-wheeler while trying to avoid falling in the creek, but she stalwartly got back up. When we came to the big hill on the northwest side of the loop, we told her to be careful and follow the turn. Instead, we should have told her to get off her bike and walk it down. The hill is quite steep for a little girl. So instead of following the turn, she got going way too fast, forgot to steer and veered off the trail at the steepest part. As her bike tumbled in the spot of this picture, she flipped over her handlebars and crashed. Like, crashed so hard that she had grass and leaves stuck in her helmet and grass stains on her cheeks. Yeah, parents of the century right here.
Besides the photo ops, Ana also had to stop and play in the water.
Gratefully we had no crashes on this bike ride, just beautiful weather, lovely company and frozen yogurt afterward.