Feb. 24th-HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

My Melia. I could already write a book all about you. It would be long and it would make the person reading it laugh, cry, smile, gasp..pretty much go through every emotion possible. I have!! I do everyday I think. My baby girl is 3 tomorrow. I cannot believe it. Before I go on about that I must go back to last Friday where my not so lucky fortune started. Troy was down for his nice long nap and Melia and I were enjoying playing together. After playing "sticker book" we decide to sit down for some lunch. I am sitting on one stool and she is on another. She decides to hang from my forearm-naturally, right?-and she tells me to pull her up. Just playing a game of "Hold on to me, Mommy." I tell her to stop hanging on me and right after I say that..somehow she pulls me over and the stool's legs fly out from under me and we crash to the ground. No biggie except something is digging into my right bum cheek. Melia starts screaming bloody murder. Oh that is her knee! CRAP!!! Her leg is somewhat twisted back like a runners' stretch and I am ontop. Nice, Mommy. So I pick her up and she is screaming ouch over and over..tears streaming down her face. The inside of her left knee is HUGE and a purple thick line has formed. Ok...weird. So in the midst of all of this I say "Oh my gosh." My dear sweet Melia through her tears and screams says "We don't say oh my gosh." ever so softly. Now those of you who know Melia..this makes sense and would melt your heart. She is precious. I will go into the whole oh my gosh thing later..there's more. So I call Dan who calls every doctor in his family. ha ha Just kidding. Long story short..we have to go get an xray as her knee was getting pretty swollen and purple. Dan came home and we all went to the doc. I am driving there and lose it and start laughing so hard I spit my wter out everywhere and then laugh so hard I cry then make the kids cry. I just had to let it all go. So the xray tech thought it was pretty funny when he asked what happened and Melia told him"Mommy fell on me off the stool."

Well today we went to Target..the kids and I. Melia somehow loses her shoes. "Mommy I want my shoes." Ok so put them on. "Where'd they go?" Hmm..ok. So just like that they vanish. I ask customer service..nothing. So while trying to find more shoes Troy pulls down a whole rack of flip slops. I am talking like 50 or shoes come all flying down. What do I do? I run! I grab the kids and run. I ended up buying Melia more shoes. How do you just lose your shoes in the store??

Melia started back gymnastics class. LOVES IT! She loves, loves, loves Coach Utah. He still reminds me of her Uncle Mike. They look alike and have the same voice but Utah is actually from Texas so immediately is cool. He even coached near Tyler. Nice. The other coach is Coach Yogi. I love the names. She wanted a rainbow leotard and amazingly enough she found one! She does so well in her class and seriously is so skilled. Troy spends his time in the little play area flashing the little girls. He lifts his shirt up at them. My boy!

Well tonight we went to Safeway. I wanted to get Melia a surpise treat for her b'day breakfast in bed. Should have stayed home. Let me say this...my Jeep is not running well at all and the engine light is on and just feels like it will stop running at any given second. So I take the truck today. Well Mr. Truck decides to have a total FLAT tire when we walk out of store #2. I have tons of groceries and 2 hungry kids and a flat. So I am told by USAA that it will be about 45 minutes or so to get someone out. Anyway..about almost 2 hours later..we get home. Troy started laughing as soon as he saw the house. I was right there with him! Anyway other than all that crazy stuff life is good. My kids are awesome and I adore spending every waking second being with them. We went to the beach twice on Sunday. All morning..come home for naps...go back. Perfect. I dont remember anything I just typed. I am exhausted. While I love being with the kids all day..they kick my butt by the end of the day!! Oh I have so much more going on, too. We were adopted by a pretty young thing..Lulu, the cat. She just gave birth to 4 kittens on our couch last night. Yep. Right there on my couch. My spot , too. Guess what ? They are still there. This is perfect really. Melia has been wanting a cat for her birthday..there you go. You have kittens too!!! So Dan and I were cat midwives last night. All I wanted to do was watch a movie...alright well tomorrow I had planned on taking Melia to Waimea to the waterfall and then lunch and a sno-cone but now that both vehicles SUCK I am not sure but I will make it special b/c she is special. I love you, Melia. You make me proud every single day. You make me laugh every single day and sometimes even cry..no, not really but I may want to? ha ha You're beautiful and thoughtful and I learn from you everyday, too. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! (more pics to come...) Ok this is the 4th time I am trying to post this by the way. Last night I checked it and no pics were there so I went back. This morning..no post was even up. Hmm..I wonder why I do not blog regularly. This always happens to me. So now my days sucks and I am giving up all hope. Really? No not really but I sure wish this stupid computer would WORK!!! Oh I am making Melia breakfast in bed as she ate the treats I got for her yesterday while I was talking to the man whom was fixing my tire. So I had different and more pics all arranged and actually in order but I will post more later..well we'll see. But my point is I LOVE YOU MELIA!!!! Let's go have a fun day!