Grace has mastered the monkey bars at home! For the last couple of weeks it has been feeling like this weird crazy situation where she should be able to actually do it, but hasn’t quite figured that out, so she is asking for more help than she needs because she is afraid of falling. Today something ticked over. Donné told her to move her hands in a certain way, just one bar at a time when holding with her left hand (she seemed to struggle a bit more when holding with her left and moving her right hand). By the time she got to the fourth bar her brain had made the connection and she was good to go.

Here are the results…..

Now all she wants to do is go and do the monkey bars. When I finished work she called me to show me, “Watch me dad, but don’t stand too close, stand over there.” To put that into context, two days ago she wouldn’t even start if I wasn’t right next to her with my hands touching her.

Go Gracie! We’re proud of you for persevering, practising, and getting strong enough to do it on your own.