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I am so so proud of my Coltan. After a few months of very real fear and apprehension, he has become so brave and tenacious.

Let me set this up with a little context. All over London, little tiny kiddos as young as 18 month (i do not exaggerate here) are ZIPPING around on scooters. It’s amazing…and terrifying. But naturally, Coltan was all about trying it as his eyes glued onto these little heart attacked inducing torpedos. A few months ago, I bought him a scooter but each time we took it out he was very scared. He’s ride it until it started to turn even a bit or if there was a person, dog, pigeon or leaf in his line of site. I felt so bad for him. Its so hard to know your child can do what he wants so badly to do but see fear get in the way.

Then, a week ago, Co wanted to take his scooter out and within a few minutes, he got it! He just did it. He figured out how to lean and steer and he was off! I was so so happy for him. Now, he’s mister big shot…even though there are these little dudes still zipping all around…he is uber confident and has even survived a few crashes without much drama.

Way to go Co. I know there will be so many times you just want to throw in the towel…you’ll get hurt, you’ll fall down, someone will whiz by you and make you feel small and I will remind you over and over again about when you were 3 in Holland Park in London and you were wearing that silly outfit you picked out because you always had to pick out your own clothes and those socks were your “racing socks” and you mastered that scooter!!!

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