Eleanor and Henry had a relaxing week leading up to Labor Day, and the start of school. We tried to complete the bike training this week with the help of our new back saving handles, but alas it wasn’t to be. Neither Eleanor or Henry are particularly excited about it, so the going is a bit slow. We did, however, get a surprise new talent – Eleanor mastered the monkey bars in one afternoon at the park through sheer will power. She just kept trying until she succeeded. Then the next day, Henry did them! He hasn’t even really tried them much before – but he saw Eleanor do it, and how excited Mom and Dad were for her, and just resigned himself to doing it too.
On Sunday, Eleanor decided that she wanted to run a restaurant, so we invited Lala over and Eleanor and dad did all the cooking and serving. There were even menus! Eleanor was pretty excited about the whole affair, and it came off pretty well with just one major spill. We completed the evening with some fresh baked chocolate chip cookies – yum!
We finished out the weekend with a trip to the splash park on Monday. Now it is back to school time – can’t wait to see how next week goes!
