Two Months and One Week

So I think I am doing pretty good just to write something once a month... although I am sure some of  you wish it was more often.

Skyler is super excited to start school in August and has asked what month we are in...almost every morning. School will be here before we know it and I'll have to remind Skyler that he was excited at one time to go to school.

Skyler says that he wants to go to China with Dad and I so he can get a cross like Dad's. While in China Scott found a man carving wood necklaces, the man only had one cross and Scott bought it. The crazy thing is Scott has been looking for a cross necklace for about four or five years and we never would have guessed he would find the one he liked in China.

We got a little pool (about two feet deep and ten feet in circumference), at first Skyler did not want to do anything but stand. But, now he can swim, kinda doggy paddle with his arms and kicks with his feet, not to pretty, but he gets around. All of that to say his confidence has really grown. He used to say he can't do anything, but now he at least tries. We went to a friends Big Pool, by the end of the day he was jumping in the shallow end with no float...trying to make a cannon ball...lol.

Skyler loved that he got to stay up way past his bed time for the 4th of July. I don't know if he really watched the fireworks though, since he talked and asked questions the whole time. He loved that he and Dad got to sit next to one another and that he got to have a glow in the dark necklace.

The other day he told Scott that he missed his old friends and foster mom. Scott told him that it was ok and natural to miss them. It was sad to hear him say that and his little voice got all quivery and he started to tear up. But it is good that he knows he can talk to us about stuff like that and he is starting to open up with his feelings and things that have happened to him.

Skyler started summer advanced T-Ball. They throw three pitches to the kids and if they don't hit the ball, then they get to hit off the T. Pretty good idea, huh? Skyler is doing really good and is super happy that he is on a team. Skyler was told before that he is Left handed, but he clearly is Right handed. He has only batted Left handed, that is until now. We were playing whiffle ball and Scott and I took turns batting on both sides. To Skyler's amazement he can bat Left and Right handed.

Skyler at a game, he was so excited that Dad 

and I were there to watch him. (He told

Dad that he didn't think I was coming, so he was SO, so

excited when he saw me taking pictures of him)

Shark Face...lol

Before we went in the Big Pool

Mrs. Becca asked Skyler to keep the ball up high, 

so the girls could get sunscreen on...they didn't like it.

Skyler did so well with them and he loved that they watched

him swim and tried to copy him....that he could teach them something.

Scott and I nicknamed Skyler little mocking bird. For us it was quite an adjustment having a little one follow and repeat everything you do and say. Which we know is good and quite normal, however we kind of threw ourselves into it. Skyler has reminded us that we are supposed to repeat and follow Christ everyday and that HE is pleased with us when we do follow and repeat and follow and repeat (you get the point).

Ephesians 5:1 "Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children"