Monday, May 30, 2011

Savannah -- what she is up to these days?

To start with, Savannah is excited about moving into our new house, and excitedly tells people that the new house is "as big as a dinosaur's butt!!"  She picked out the biggest bedroom upstairs, and it is BIG!! She cannot wait to have all of her princess castles in her room.She has 1 day of school left at Clemson Montessori and she's sad to be leaving her beloved teacher Susan and her best friend Kelsie. Kelsie is equally devastated and has been sending Savannah home with pictures of the two of them together every day for weeks now. I am sad to see my girlie so sad about leaving her sweet little friend. But, she is so adaptable that she will be making new friends quickly in AL.  She got her "report card" from school and we didn't need it to tell us that she is a smart cookie. She's been working hard at counting to 100 (she needs some reminders), but she's getting there! Her vocabulary is amazing.  She's also working hard at swimming. Every day she challenges herself to do a little more than she did the day before. She will stand at the edge of the pool after deciding how far she'll swim today and say to herself "I can do this, I can do this".  She can dive down for rings, swim across the shorter side of the pool, and she's getting the hang of what we call "dolphin arms" (getting those arms up out of the water). She's finally gotten the hang of her tricycle, so a big girl bike may be in her future when we get to AL. She loves making rivers in the dirt/rocks on the side of the driveway with the sprinkler, and as always -- loves painting and coloring.  We are excited for a full week of Princess  Dance Camp at Ms. Fain's before we move!!  She and Gage are becoming good buddies and she's learning how to let him play with her in a "good way" -- my favorite is when she takes her princess castle out and asks Gage to go get some tools so he can "fix the castle".  At times they play together for long stretches, and at other times they nearly kill each other - such are brothers and sisters!