I've been reading about balance bikes and it seems like the new trend is to have kids learn to balance on balance bikes and then proceed to a normal pedal bike (no training wheels) when they are ready and to skip the tricycle all together.

I think my LO is too young for a balance bike (or maybe she isn't? She's 22 months), so I was planning on getting a push trike for the summer, but I don't think she is tall enough to reach the pedals yet.

Should I skip the push trike altogether then, since she won't really use it as a tricycle since I think we might want to go the balance bike route?

What will you be doing? Getting a push tricycle and balance bike, or just going with 1 or the other?