Melly's Butterflies

Our little girl sure loves butterflies. I don't know why she picked butterflies and owls as her favorite animals, but she completely adores them. Yesterday we were looking at houses and one house had a few decorative butterflies on the garage. She spotted them almost as soon as she stepped out of the car. She made sure to tell each one of us about the butterflies. The whole time as we walked through the house she talked about butterflies. She became very distraught when she realized we were leaving the butterflies and I imagine she was asking the butterflies to save her from her mean parents who were making her get in the car. In the car she calmed down, but she did not forget the butterflies. All the way home she jabbered on in her own language with the word butterfly mixed in every few seconds. She kept that up for close to thirty minutes before a doggie at another house distracted her attention and she had to go over to meet it.

Someday we'll have to take her down to California see the monarch migration, she'll lose her mind.

Victory

For those of you who aren't familiar with our neighborhood we live on a relatively busy street. We also have a medical clinic right next door. Many of the employees of the clinic park on the street, not because the parking lot is full, but because the walk to the employee entrance is shorter. They park at an angle to the street and when all 20 of them park there it makes it impossible to see oncoming traffic. Back in February or March I saw two minor accidents in as many weeks due to people having to pull out of the clinic blindly. If we leave our parking lot at certain times of the day we also have to pull out blindly.

So after seeing the accidents I decided to do something about it. I spent an hour or so cruising the city website before I found the page to submit a request to change the parking regulations. I filled out the forms requesting that it be painted for parallel parking only and submitted it all. Months passed and I figured nothing was going to happen with it. Last week Wendi even left a note on a car asking them not to park there to make it safer and they have parked elsewhere since.

Today, while I was at work Wendi called all excited. First she told me that our son is going to be a midget, but that's a story for another day. Then she told me that I'd be way excited about something. Check out the photos: (sorry about the quality, I only had my phone camera on me)

Lady Bugs

I think that ladybugs must really like us. In the last two weeks we have had three lady bugs in our apartment and it is always at night. We had two the other night and one tonight. I have never seen lady bugs inside by their own doing. So strange.

We've got an announcement

We'll let Melly tell ya'll

Baby photo of Melly

I've always loved this photo of her. I just wanted to post it here.

July 4th Mishap

Our day at the lake started off with what probably should have been a trip to the hospital for my mother-in-law; when a mattress coil punctured her foot while in the water. At the time it just looked like a big gaping hole in the top of her foot, but looking at it today it's good that she's got a doctor appointment tomorrow morning. She no longer had an ankle, her foot is so swollen and the redness has started to move up her leg. We keep teasing her and giving her some quick fix solutions such as amputation or letting me squeeze on the wound to drain the fluid. Both of which she immediately shot down without a moments hesitation. We were also giving her some some suggestions on how to liven up her "how did that happen" story for her co-workers. Some of which include: Utah Lake Sharks and Chinese spiders. Again I don't think she was to thrilled about our making light of her pain.

In all seriousness we do feel bad for you Julie and hope that your foot gets feeling better soon.

July 4th Adventures

Our Fourth of July was a fun filled day of adventure. It all started out with lunch at Peter's parents house and a quick birthday party for Jenalee (sister-in-law). Then we were off to the lake (Utah lake that is) for some fun in the sun and a little swimmin' (in Melly's words). Melynn loved the water, but don't worry she was able to touch the bottom and there was always somebody by her side. She loved it so much in fact that she fell asleep on my shoulder in the water, because she didn't want to get out. When it was time to get out she cried to get back in. At one point her Aunt Katie took her to shore to warm up, but she was only wrapped in her towel for a few minutes before she was pulling on her floaties to get back in. After we got home and got cleaned up Melly had found her floaties and was walking around saying, "swimmin', swimmin'" wanting to go out again. Later in the evening we went back over to do fireworks but by the time it was dark the kids were too tired to stay so we decided to do it the next day. They ended up hating it anyway. It scared them both with the sound and the crackling and brightness. Here are some picture of us at the lake.

Is it salvageable?

Well my scroll ball stopped working on my phone so we bought a replacement and the tools to repair it. Well I think that peter got a little carried away. I just hope it's still salvageable. What do you think? Here's my phone in a muffin pan.

First Firework Experience

Last year we were in Alaska and it is illegal to have fireworks so we were unable to teach Melynn about them. She was probably too young anyway. So this is her first real Fouth of July. So we showed her about snaps and sparklers. She loved the snaps and caught on really quickly. But we had to help her with the sparklers of course. I think At one point she traded hands and her thumb was in a place that would get burned if left there. Peter kind of panicked and pulled it out of her hand. After that she wanted nothing to do with them.

I don't know what is going on with the videos, but they are coming soon.

Little Melly

I forget sometimes just how small my little girl really is. This picture doesn't really do her justice. But she likes to take off her clothes and she curled up really small under her blanket. So cute.