Category: Henry

Eleanor was excited to celebrate her sixth birthday this week. She had been considering plans for a while, and had plans for all three meals of the day, as well as activities throughout the day and sleeping arrangements for the night before and night of. We started festivities with a slumber party with Mom on…

This week we finally got around to repainting Eleanor’s room. She had been asking to redecorate her room to a pink theme, and to take down the wall stickers and replace them with other things. So on Saturday we took a family trip to Home Depot and Eleanor picked out the color, and we got…

Great Grandma came into town this weekend for a trip to US Cellular Field to see the Tigers battle the White Sox. Unfortunately, we were again foiled by the weather, this time with a fierce heat wave. On the plus side, they started the game with the end of the previous night’s game, so we…

Eleanor and Henry headed to Michigan this week for some time at with Grandma, Grandpa and the rest of the family. Both kids enjoyed swimming in the lake, but when the waves were a little bigger Henry preferred to dodge them on the shore rather than swim. Eleanor wanted to explore the waves a bit…

Eleanor and Henry celebrated the Fourth of July with a visit to Grandma and Grandpa’s house. We had lots of scooter time, and Eleanor even tried out a different ride on toy – mastering the street luge. We also did rockets, and managed to recover three out of five – a new record! We spent…