DS (3.5yo) has been off for the school holidays and has been watching DD (6.5yo) riding around on her bike and has started asking for one. He has a Bob the Builder trike but can't pedal it up hill (we live on a slight slope) as the pedals are in front of him attached to the front wheel.
On the one hand I feel he should wait for it and it should be a special present etc. (DD will be getting a bigger bike for Christmas this year so it would be nice for them to both get new bikes at the same time).
But on the other hand I feel sorry that he will spend the whole summer watching DD on hers. He has enough money in his building society account to buy one and the money in there is from family from birthdays & Christmas for just this kind of thing.
But DD got hers for Christmas from MIL who was very keen to get it for her. And I know MIL will want to get DS a bike too. It's not DS birthday until November so he can't get it for that instead. BTW he can't share DD's as the stabilisers have been taken off!
One idea was to build it up a bit looking at pictures of bikes etc and then make a big thing about going to buy one at the beginning of the summer holidays. Maybe asking MIL if she wants to take him to choose one. But then DD will be huffy about that!
I wondered what everyone thought.