Going

  Private! 

Going, Going,

GONE.

With how much blogging I do, there’s a lot of personal information shared about my family and I. 

So, yes… sad to say, I’m going to be a “private” blogger. 

I feel like I’m going undercover or something. 

Would love for you to be added to my list of readers.  Let me know if you’d like to continue reading my blog by leaving your name and email address in the comment section or by emailing me your email address to melodyproudfit(at)gmail(dot)com.

Even if you don’t know me, but have some connection to someone I know or have a great story of how you found me and are an avid reader of my blog, don’t be shy or afraid to, please make yourself known. 

I would be ~much obliged~ to adding you to my reader list. :)

X Private Eye/Undercover Melody

“Bedtime”

Handshakes

and the

“I Love You”

Secret

Handshake

The I love you “secret” handshake, which I am NOW making, not secret is:

sometimes when we hold hands, we squeeze three times… and the other person knows that it means

I… LOVE… YOU.

The kids love this and always look back with a huge smile whether they are the ones to do it or Mike and I squeezing their hand.

I think it all started when Mike and I were newleyweds and i think Mike came up with this.

Then there are bedtime handshakes with our kids.  Mike has made up a different handshake for each of the kids.  And I have one I do with all of them, my parents would do with me.  So it’s even EXTRA special.  Not one night goes by without getting tucked in with a handshake.  Even Dagen is good at it.

Ok,

  Seriously???

I am a HUGE fan of HGTV’s Design Star show.  The kids have been following it with me along the way too.  I’m not a big tv watcher, in fact, the tv only comes on twice a day.  Once for the kids to watch a show or movie, and then at night when Mike and I are in bed, when we watch a little Leno, but this is the ONLY show I’ve watched on tv lately. 

It turned out that the finale show was down to Michael and Emily and the girls and I were rooting for Emily to win and Isaac was rootin’ for Michael.  Except he didn’t know the guys name, just that he was a boy and he wanted the boy to win.

So the decision is made, Emily wins.  And huge crocodile tears and sobs comes from Isaac who is sitting next to me.  “She wasn’t supposed to win!!!”

I jumped up, grabbed my camera, and jaw dropped, couldn’t believe what I was seeing.  Give me a break, Isaac.  Usually he’s not the drama mama in the family, usually it’s one of the girls.

Real tears!

“I’m Biggo”

“I did my buckle by myself!”

This carseat was recommended to me by I don’t remember who, but I was told it was the best carseat, so I got two.  And these carseats have been through all our kids.  But the bottom buckle is a puzzle. 

 

And it takes a long time before they can figure out how to buckle it on their own or unbuckle it on their own.  Dagen figured the puzzle out 2 wks ago.  She was so proud of herself. 

More Monsoons

Yeah.  When it rains here, it pours.  And it sure scares the heck out of the kids.

This was a couples weeks back.

And what’s funny, is that the swamp my yard becomes, is all evaporated the next day after a couple hours of the hot sun.  Every last drop!  Unbelievable.

Dagen’s 3rd

Birthday

Dagen’s birthday was Tues, Aug 24. 

The night before her birthday, after coming back from getting balloons at Party City,  I went upstairs and found Dagen sleeping in Kallie’s bed.  Lately Dagen has been so scared to sleep in her bed.  She begs to sleep on the floor and sometimes after I come back up before I go to bed, she IS sleeping on the floor! 

It stems back from when Isaac and Kallie would say, “Sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite!”  So now she took that literally and thinks bugs will bite her in her bed.  I’ve tried everything and can’t remedy it.  Every night, when tucking her in, she always says, “But I scared!”

Breaks my heart!

The kids and I went to the store with her to have her pick out a gift a couple days before her birthday, ‘cause I had no clue what she wanted.  She is really into Princess Tiana, coloring, and supposedly Hello Kitty (she saw Hello Kitty party decor and had to have it).  Looking through both Target and Walmart, this is what she picked out.  She couldn’t get it though until birthday morning.

We immediately turned on the tunes and had a dance party.

The girls all felt like they needed to dress up too and coordinate with Dagen’s dress.

(she put the hat on herself)

“Mommy, look at me.  Dat bunny (funny)”

The birthday girl gets to help make the cake with Mommy.  No other helpers allowed!

I thought this time, I’d venture out from the norm of simple cupcakes and made my own fondant icing and created these fancy faces for the cupcakes. 

The eyes and nose are mini m&m’s cut in half and the flower cut from the fondant but dyed pink and the yellow center another m&m.  I later piped some whiskers on to add the finishing touch.

So easy… the kids each made their own.

 

“Quick Mommy, take a picture!  Hurry, I’m falling!”

Dagen wanted her hair done pretty.

We did the blow up slide in the back and a little kiddie pool.

  

And a pinata.  I had my kids help fill it for me and it was filled to the very top.  I’ve never filled a pinata before and learned that next time… only fill it halfway.  There were little toys inside also, but once we lifted it up with the plastic loop up top, it cut through the cardboard from being too heavy.  So we jerry-rigged it and tied the rope around the middle of it.  I also poured a bag of confetti inside to add a little fun effect to it all.

 

She gets to wear the family birthday hat.

And the next morning we released the balloons to Balloonia.  Except this time, with no success.  The wind was blowing so hard, all the balloons twisted together in a knot and we had to release them all together.  They didn’t go very far.  The kids were sad to see they were stuck in the prickly tree.