A milestone in development occurred this afternoon at about 7. We were at the park, after dinner and before bath, when the kids were doing what they do. David was riding around in a new tricycle, and Isabelle was climbing around on the play structure. I don't know if you can still call 'em jungle gyms or monkey bars or whatever we used to call them. But I digress.



Isabelle had a great breakthrough while she was playing. For the first time, she was able to hang onto a horizontal bar, one of many which create a ladder to the next structure, and she then reached out and grabbed the next bar. Then the next, and so on. She has never done that before. She was always afraid of falling or not making it to the next rung.

And she made it to the other side! She was so happy! And we clapped and said, "Yeah!" Then she jumped up and down, screamed a little happy scream, and did a little dance.

Then she was right back to repeat her feat! With much more confidence.