Two Little Men: Two Weeks with Henry & Henry learns to ride a bike!

Friday, September 02, 2011

Two Weeks with Henry & Henry learns to ride a bike!

Once Leo goes to school, it is still a couple of weeks until Henry starts his preschool. When Leo leaves, it is a nice break from the fighting. Henry is pretty easy, but he does pepper me with questions CONSTANTLY. Yesterday he asked me...."What happens if tomorrow doesn't come?" I said...."I don't know. That has never happened to me." My brain really starts to turn to mush.

We painted a birdhouse one day.

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The minute we dropped Leo off at school, Henry declared that he wanted to learn to ride a bike without training wheels. Then he said it again, and again, and again, and again, and again. And bugged me and bugged me. I tried my best to dissuade him....Leo didn't learn to ride w/o training wheels until the beginning of 1st grade. He would get so frustrated and mad at us when we tried to help. I wasn't looking forward to all that again.

This is him pretending to be happy but he's begging me to take the training wheels off.

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We went to Open Gym time. Henry said he wants to take gymnastics.

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I made pizza on Friday, and everyone was thrilled.

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The other impediment to the biking has been the HEAT. This is Todd helping him late Saturday afternoon (27th).

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Progress on Sunday.

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Doing a little Wizard of Oz.

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And now he is doing really great without the training wheels. He can't get started alone, but other than that he is just fine. We have ridden almost every day so far this week (typing this on Wed Aug 31).