Day 49: My growing girl!

A few weeks ago Skylar was given a project to build a time capsule and place different things inside that are her favorites! I also needed to write a letter (which I of course sobbed my way through) and place it inside this time capsule. After it's presented at school, we are to seal it and not open it until her 18th birthday! I think its a pretty cute idea to see what we've put inside and just like I said in my letter to her, it brings tears to my eyes to think that when she opens this box, she'll no longer be a little girl but now a young woman. Oh gosh...and now here come the tears again. I think it brings so much emotion because I know that time will be here before I know it and it's just a hard pill to swallow. I just want to freeze my time with her here and now! sigh. Back the capsule...I am not crafty by any means but she really helped it picking out what she wanted and I think it came out pretty cute.

We've placed pictures inside and a little stuffed animal that's one of her favorites and of course, my letter. They'll be adding things at school too so I can't wait to see what else goes in before we seal it all up! As I was working on my letter to her, she was right beside me doodling on a notepad. I really paid no attention because most days that's where she is, right beside me. At one point I glanced over and saw that she'd written out the letters "n" and "o" so I asked - what does that say? She began sounding it out and said "no. It says NO!" My jaw dropped. So then I wrote out the word "cat" again she sounded it out and said - cat! Same with "bat" and "top." My 4 year old is beginning to read!!! I just can't believe how quickly they grow. I mean one day she was this tiny baby (with loooong legs) crawling around everywhere and now she's this little person, with her own thoughts and personality and is reading!!! Once I saw this I gave her a huge hug and told her how proud I was of her and that we would go get some books that she could learn to read! So that's on the agenda for tomorrow. Here she is writing out her words and then sounding them out...

I love you Skylar Elizabeth! But please someone hit the pause button now so I can keep her this little and innocent FOREVER!!!!!