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).


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Up at the school riding bikes. Great picture.


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We rode all the way to the trail on Tuesday!!


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Collection of Random End-of-Summer Pictures

How I looked most of the summer.


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Henry slept on an air mattress for quite awhile and was upset when I put it away. Why did we buy them nice mattresses, again? They could camp until college.


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This has been the most miserable summer EVER in terms of heat and drought. MISERABLE. I can't say that enough. I am totally burned out on this weather. Here is one weekend morning when we took them to Going Bonkers to burn some energy. I'm sure it was 10am and 105* degrees.


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Lots of indoor activities. Leo was really proud of this domino run.


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It got kinda tense here by the end of summer. We had all had *quite* enough of each other and being inside.


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For a long time, I refused to eat hot food b/c it gave me hot flashes after I ate. I am back to eating some hot meals....but I still have tiny flashes. Well, I guess b/c it is STILL over 100 every day. Ugh. And, no, I do not put Aquaphor in sushi. And, yes, there was lots of Sangria drinking this summer. FTR, I think Patio is the best premade sangria.

Sushi lovers waiting for scraps here. This was CA Rolls.


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Pretty sure we were the only people at Hawaiian Falls on this day eating leftover sushi and edamame. Or, as I call it, our Redneck Country Club Membership. This was my last full day alone with the boys this summer. I was pretty much at the breaking point. We were at Hawaiian Falls as soon as it opened and left when it was time for Todd to come home. Reapplied sunscreen at least 4 times this day. Henry and I rode the lazy river at least 30 rounds on this day. We did have a good time. Leo is really great about checking his watch and then checking in with me every 30 minutes or so. One time, he got out of line when he was way up at the top of a slide to come check in - we decided to have 10 minutes grace period after that.


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We went to the Science Museum for Discover Construction Day.


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Leo starts Third Grade

Leo started Third Grade on Aug. 22nd! Yay for Leo!


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Here is 2nd grade.


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Can't find 1st grade. Here is Kindergarten! Oh my.


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I should get Carla to make me one of these for the end of every summer. Maybe for next week when Henry FINALLY goes to preschool.


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