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Nandi has been desperate to ride a bicycle ever since Ei learned to ride last summer. (His training wheels came off this past summer!) Anyway, Nandi tries and tries but she just can't keep her left leg on the pedal. A wonderful organization named AMBUCS donated a big wheel trike to Nandi last year that had foot plates with velco straps, but, unfortunately, it was too low to the ground for her to use her upper body to steer it. (Nandi has some balance issues, too, because her whole body is sort of thrown to her right side.)

But.... all that changed today when my parents stopped by a flea market in the little town next over and saw a Thistle Tri-lo. Oh my gosh.... these things are made in Glasgow. How it ended up in a small town in East Texas is beyond me. They brought it over this morning and Nandi LOVES it. It's perfect for her. And I'm going to get Noah on it during the day when she's in school and pedal with him hand over hand. He needs to build up the strength in his left hand.

Although they both have the same type of CP (left hemiplegia), it affects them differently. Noah walks kind of lopsided, but his foot is flat and he rarely uses his left hand and Nandi is completely on her toes (like a ballerina) but has good control of her hand. Sooooo cool that the bike will benefit both of them!

So here it is.... Nandi on her sweet new ride!