Ady's Scooter

The best sixty five pounds we've spent!  Ady loves her scooter- and it makes our lives so much easier by allowing us to go far distances without making Ady over-tired by the time we arrive.  It is one of the most sound and well-designed devices I have ever seen.  It was developed in Germany and EVERY child here has one.  Now I know why!  It glides effortlessly over the bumpy and cobbled sidewalks of London like butter.  To steer, instead of moving the handle bars forward or backward in a circular plane to turn, you lightly lean the handle bars to one side or another in a horizontal linear plane, which tilts the wheels, and turns the scooter.  I'll admit, it blows my mind just a little bit.  Ady has gotten so good at her scooter that she has developed a style all her own- sometimes holding one leg out with a pointed toe while she coolly zooms along.  Lately she likes to go super fast and really gets her one leg working hard and quick to push herself along.  Unfortunately, this has been short-lived because it became acutely clear just how dangerous these contraptions are one day when Ady crashed and another day when she almost got run over by a car backing up that did not see her!!!  So now she must stay right by my side while we are walking to school- only to go free when we are at the park.  We have 3/4 mile walk to school each way, which is quite a distance for a little kid, so this thing has been a lifesaver!  And I think Ady looks so adorable with her huge Dora helmet on her head, which just so happens to color coordinate quite nicely with her scooter.