I should have predicted this

Naomi used to ride her tricycle on the porch for 30-40 minutes at a time. Then, on Tuesday, a new-to-us tricycle that will handle hills much better came into her life, and she spurned her old tricycle for the new one. She has spent 3 days resisting riding her old tricycle on the porch. She still wants to ride constantly, and still wants to ride on the porch, but was insisting that she wanted to ride the NEW tricycle on the porch. OR -- she's open to alternative ideas -- we could go down to the sidewalk. Of course, that doesn't work so well when Sim's sleeping. I guess I should have seen that coming, since the new toy is SO much cooler...however, I'm also not interested in hefting it up and down all the time, so I've been telling her if she wants to ride on the porch, she would need to ride her old tricycle. She resisted.

Today, though, she finally broke down and is now riding her tricycle on the porch again. Judging from the sounds of happy singing and riding, things are getting patched up between them.