Patrick and Melanie

5.10.2010

day late

Happy Mothers Day!

This may be a day late - but we love our mamma's so so much!

5.07.2010

burd

I love birds...or burds as I choose to call them. I don't know when this love started...I guess a few years ago?

Well, I have some birds here and there around my house. I was looking at some of the new pictures my sister posted and died when I saw this little guy. I fell in love.

And guess what!?!!

He came in a package all the way to St Louis just the other day!!

I don't remember the last time I was so excited :)

It was the perfect surprise (along with a box of incredibly funny other prizes from my oh.so.creative sister)

Here is burd's new home. My coffee table. With a bird friend and a picture of my great grandfather on a horse...in the army maybe??

Have I told you that I have the best sister in the world??

Now onto my next project. I am sewing pillows! We will see how this goes..

cinco de mayo

We avoided the long waits at restaurants for a Cinco de Mayo in forest park. Chips, dip, burritos, margaritas, corona and limes - and most important of all - a pinata!

The group with our super cool pinata. Elle has the pinata stick - this became a problem when people had their eyes closed and were ready to swing and she came flying up, jumping to steal the stick...Luke loved it too.

Chetana got first swing - and did a good job poking a hole. Those things are tougher than they look!

Elle being taken to her designated safety spot so she didn't get nailed with the stick

Spinning Seth

Elle's tree

Luke's tree

Steve's turn

Pat being spun into the branches

It finally was busted after every one had several turns. And yes - it may or may not be a pinata for a small child's birthday - but don't hate. I bet you didn't have a pinata at your Cinco de Mayo celebration....

4.25.2010

kansas city

This weekend I drove to Kansas City to meet up with my sweet friend Nicole. We haven't been able to see much of each other over the past few years, and it was so nice to have time to catch up and just hang out together. It was rainy in KC, but we still had a great time!! She is due in June and I can't wait to meet her baby boy!

(ahem.... please ignore the fact that I am wearing light pink and dark pink together....it's a rain jacket - ok?)

Patrick is on call this weekend - so he couldn't join us. Nicole's husband had some friends in town so he didn't make the trip either. Pat said Elle was a monster yesterday and not much has changed since then. I made it home around 1ish, so she had been cooped up since around 7 this morning. Of course it's raining and nasty out today - no run or dog park in her near future...

But we did find this HUGE stick in the courtyard. See - that was after I ran around the courtyard like a crazy woman in circles trying to wear her out...only to trip over her and I bu-sted on the concrete. Yeah...I fell. Fo-real. Like an all out, small sized adult fall. The ones you laugh really hard at when you see. I came out of it with a few battle wounds and a very good laugh. Too bad there was no one to share it with. I hate wasted falls. Maybe something is wrong with me

- but -

#1 - I laugh really really hard when I see grown ups fall (no worries, I don't laugh at children or the elderly...just all those in between)

#2 - My first reaction isn't to ask if the victim from the attack of the concrete or steps is okay, it's to laugh. Then, if I see that there is an injury, I continue to laugh - of course at this time trying my best to act my age instead of acting like I am 13 yrs old - and gain my composure to see if I can help them. Usually I fail miserably with the whole acting mature approach.

#3 - I really enjoy a good fall if someone is with me to witness it. I don't like to fall alone. It's never quite as fun.

#4 - I must tell on Courtney. When she was visiting in January, we were out on a walk. She was right behind me, slipped on ice and dove face-ish/hand-ish first onto the concrete. h.i.l.a.r.i.o.u.s - I mean - one of the funniest things I had seen in quite some time..

I remember falling on our honeymoon and I was laughing, and Pat wasn't. I was very confused as to why he was acting so concerned and why he wasn't laughing...??? He explained to me that he was worried. What an interesting response....or maybe a normal one??

Does anyone else have this problem??

See - I told you that stick of choice today was HUGE. She carried that sucker all the way up stairs, smashed it through the doorway and furniture to make it right out onto her designated stick chewing area. Such an angel.

4.23.2010

1,000,000 years ago

I feel like I am in a dang time machine. I look outside thinking I may see a brontosaurus eating leaves from the courtyard trees. A caveman building a fire. Or maybe a man in a top hat with a cane, climbing into his horse and carriage.

Why, you may ask?

I am cellphone-less.

You may not think this is a big deal...but you should try it. If you don't have a land line, you are screwed (...we don't have one...therefore I am screwed).

This is my phone:

We have been through a lot together. A few weeks ago it dove into a sink with running water...but I saved it's life. Yesterday is a different story. It took a jump from about 5 feet 2-3 inches off the ground, plummeting onto a dirty hospital tile floor - to its death.

Remember car phones. I vividly remember the one between the front seats of Mom's van...

I am so desperate for contact with the outside world that I would take one of these and use it with pride.

For now it is a homing pigeon for me.

I will be collecting phone numbers whenever I get reconnected to the world...

Happy weekend.

4.22.2010

the 'd'

This poor baby stayed at the same doggy hotel that we used when we went to New Orleans. Last trip she got the 'v' (aka - throw ups, vomiting, or vomikin if you're coming to the ER). This trip she got the 'd' (....you can figure it out yourself, I am sure)

She's been eating boiled rice again and is slowly recovering.

They bathed her before we picked her up Sunday night and even gave her this lovely, stylish bandana. She was so excited to see us. Her little...I mean big.. nose was peeking over the gated area, they let her out and she was so jumpy that she busted my lower lip.

I think she missed us ;)