First Day of School

Sorry about the panties showing... :(

She has to wear tennis shoes to her new school and

she insisted on wearing her new dress... such a fashion faux pas

Skylar started her new school on Monday and Jimmy started in a new classroom. They are both growing SO fast. Boo! It was hard to drop Skylar off at the new school.. I was worried she would be sad. Turns out she loves it there!! She came home singing 3 new songs and told us stories at dinner about her day. Jimmy didn't say much about his new classroom (hehehe) but I think he likes it too! He sleeps on a nap mat now and eats at a table...it is so cute!

We now have to pray before every meal (thank you SWDS) and our prayer begins, "tick tock says the clock, now it's time to pray!" which is followed by the sign of the cross. Most nights Skylar skips at least one part of the Trinity but sometimes she manages to get it all. She mumbles through the "bless us oh Lord......" and catches up with a loud, "AMEN!" Then she reminds us Jimmy is too little to pray because he can't talk. I love this family time (until the screaming to get away from the table begins!)

Dancing King

So tonight I was catching up on So You Think You Can Dance and Jimmy just couldn't help himself, he had to dance to the music. So sweet! He just stood right in front of the TV and bounced up and down. When Skylar started spinning in circles and dancing all around Jimmy, he just laughed and laughed. I love this age... everything they say and do is just so stinkin' cute (IMHO)!

Big Girl Room

It's official, Skylar is a big girl! She now has a Big Girl room to prove it! She wanted a princess theme and pink, pink, pink!! When we finished painting and put all her stuff back into the room Skylar gasped and declared, "my room is precious!!" I think Skylar is precious!

Oh the places we went!

We had a busy few weeks traveling. First we hit St. Augustine and enjoyed the oil-free beaches of the Atlantic. Then we moved onto Ohio. First we visited my parents in Cleveland, then Jim's dad in Youngstown and wrapped up the vacation with at his mom' house in Columbus! Never a dull moment! We got to visit the Fountain of Youth were we saw a peacock. Skylar insisted on calling it Price Azul because there is a peacock in Barbie: Island Princess with that name! She chased him around calling his name expecting him to respond!! Jimmy also found a friend in the form of a white peacock we quickly named Prince Blanco.

We got to spend time at different parks with different grandparents and even got to experience the summer in all it glory (with windows open and air conditioning off!!) It was a cool 55 degrees some nights during our stay up North!!! All in all it was an awesome vacation and I wouldn't trade that time with our extended family for anything in the world. It is so amazing to watch my children interact with their aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins. I feel so blessed to have a schedule that allows us the freedom to make this trip each year. Coming home is always bitter sweet. We miss our family greatly and really miss the help they provide but we are always eager to get back into a routine and stop living out of a suitcase!! If only all the grandparents would pack up and move here, then life would be perfect!!