Unfinished Basement

We have been loving our unfinished basement. The kids go down and ride their swivel cars, or their scooters and just have such a great time.  Kyle has set up our camping chairs so we can have a place to sit and watch while the kids play.  Emma has gotten really fast at riding the swivel cars.  She goes through doorways and turns corners like a pro.  She also has gotten really good at riding the scooter.  It's really impressive.  Corbin has upgraded from the 3-wheel scooter to the 2-wheel scooter and does extremely well with riding it.  Another huge bonus to having an unfinished basement is it's February and Corbin has learned how to ride his 2 wheel bike without his training wheels.  We had some friends come over and they were downstairs playing.  Corbin came up after awhile and told me that he had done something wrong and needed me to come down and fix it.  Turns out he had taken his training wheels off.  Not sure how he did it but I told him that we would have to have Daddy put them back on.  That evening Corbin told his Dad what he was trying to do by taking off his training wheels so Kyle told him that he would help him try riding it and if he didn't like it he would put them back on.  Kyle and Corbin went back and forth quite a few times with little success of improvement.  Corbin started getting frustrated and so was Daddy so they decided to stop.  While Daddy went upstairs to take care of some business I was able to convince Corbin to let me try and help him.  In the 15 minutes Kyle was gone Corbin went from needing constant help to being able to start with some help and go all the way to the other side of the room.  It was so exciting to see him get down to the other side get off the bike and give me a huge smile when he saw where I had stopped helping him.  We are working on the turning aspect but I think the basement is a little small to really work on it but he is doing so great!  Come spring he'll be able to just jump on it and go!