Pocahontas

Skylee is growing bigger, smarter, more beautiful, and especially, more talkative. :)

The other night she grabbed her Tracing Letters/Words booklet, and spent over an hour in her room working hard; she loved it! We have been tracing everything! Now that she has learned how to correctly hold a pencil/crayon, her dexterity has improved drastically overnight. Coloring in the lines, painting pictures, tracing words...I love watching her grow.

Beginning of August Caleb switched jobs from AT&T to Best Buy, and we found ourselves with a week off work! So, we ventured up to Indy to visit my mom for her birthday. We had a perfect mini-vaca. Skylee is always a joy on long roadtrips...really! (She is just so easy!)
August 3, 2011, after a 9 hour drive home, I found out I'm pregnant!
Skylee is so proud to tell everyone she knows (and doesnt) that she is going to be a big sister. We talk about the baby everyday in little ways.
Skylee asked me this morning if she can feed the baby cereal in the mornings. She always wants to teach the baby how to paint. :)
She wants a baby sister, but she told me we won't know until it grows eyelashes.
I am between 9 and 10 weeks along..so far the due date is March 31. 
We are so excited to have another little addition to our family!! I really cannot imagine anything more happy than another baby to love, and a little sibling for Skylee.

Skylee started gymnastics this morning. She really likes ballet, LOVES tap dance, but gymnastics is her favorite. There is only one other little girl in her class-- Ruth (they took gymnastics together in the summer).
Since Caleb started with Best Buy, we have become Michaels junkies (it's right next door to Best Buy). Two or three times a week we browse for cheap crafts and inspiration. We picked up a water coloring kit last week, and it has been a huge success. Skylee is very determined to always use every single color at least once, so her pictures turn out especially colorful.



Oh! And Pocahontas. We have been listening to the Pocahontas soundtrack non-stop in the car, and I caught Skylee singing along yesterday. In the song, the pilgrims sing "Savages, savages." in the scene before John Smith's supposed death. Well, Skylee has interpreted this as "sandwiches, sandwiches." Tehee. :) Makes me giggle everytime I hear it.