Eleanor at 5 Years, 5 Months

* You are a total clothes horse.  You love to shop in catalogs, online, in store.  You dress yourself every morning without being asked and always pair jewelry and a hair or 2 accessory.
* You organize your closet, jewelry box, Barbies, Saige's (your American Girl) closet.  The apple doesn't fall far from the tree!
* You love bike riding and really want your training wheels off
* You are an AMAZING swimmer.  At the beginning of the summer you would barely get in, and now you have the confidence to dive into the deep end and retrieve rings, do flips, hand stands and know your strokes very well.  I think you always had it in you, but as your swim teacher said, you did not have the confidence.  Your daddy is an amazing teacher!
* You start Kindergarten in 1 week and you think you are a very BIG girl.  You have had milk every night in a sippy cup ( the same 2) since you were 1.5.  You told me that "even though I am a big girl, it is totally ok to still have a sippy cup because they are for big girls too".  Bless her - sentimental mommy will let her have that cup until college :)
* You are so sweet.  You have the most genuine heart and I pray you stay that way forever. 
* You are really starting to look like mommy ( I think!)