Category: Eleanor
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Happy Mother’s Day!
It has been a play-date packed couple of weeks for Eleanor and Henry – we started off with a Monday play-date for Eleanor and a few of her friends, which was great. Then, on Saturday Eleanor had a sleepover birthday party with a bunch of her school friends – her first sleepover party! She had…
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Happy Birthday Monkey!
Eleanor and Henry celebrated Monkey’s birthday this week with some yummy bundt cakes. It is hard to believe that it is May already – especially with the crazy weather. We have whipsawed from snow to 70 degrees and back again. This week Eleanor’s class put on their assembly, they put on two plays that they…
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Happy Easter!
Eleanor and Henry had a great Easter in Michigan with Grandma and Grandpa and the Martins. It was a short trip this year as we didn’t have any vacation time on either side – but we were still able to get our egg dyeing in. Unfortunately the weather didn’t co-operate so we didn’t get as…
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More snow?
What a strange weather weekend! On Saturday we were out at the park riding bikes and playing basketball, and on Sunday we were stuck in the house all with near constant snowfall. We had some fun rediscovering our puzzling skills – on Friday we tried a “Escape” game at home, puzzling out a series of…
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Spring at Last!
Well, we seem to be woefully short on pictures this week, but we did enjoy our first taste of spring weather. Henry has been enjoying getting outside each day – alternating between soccer, basketball and football. This weekend we sprinkled in some bike riding, and the kids were excited about moving up to some larger…
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Aspen!
Henry and Eleanor had a fantastic week out in Colorado skiing. Both kiddos did some lessons, and made great progress. Eleanor quickly earned back her ski pols and by the end of the trip was confidently going down blue runs, and even did the top of a black run! Henry had a bit of a…
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Eleanor and Henry celebrated St. Patrick’s day with our annual viewing of the river dyeing. This year we had Grandma, Grandpa and Ben as guests for the weekend which made it extra special. We had a fun dinner at Zed 451 on Friday night, and then enjoyed the river on Saturday. We also found time…
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Learning About Volcanoes
This week Eleanor had her big presentation on everything she has learned about Hawaiian Volcanoes. She was very nervous about it, but she did it and was happy with the result. Her model island and volcanoes came out well, and she was pleased with them which was the most important part. Henry got to come…