She's tall! She's gorgeous! I'm her mom, I get to brag!

My baby won't stop growing! She gets taller and taller and smarter and smarter everyday ( book smart that is. The common sense is still lacking). Tonight they had so much fun in gymnastics. Since they did all their testing last week, they got a fun day this week. They had races where they saw who could go the furthest walking on their hands. They did the little sommersault thing where you grab your friends ankles and keep doing sommersaults. They did some other ones that are way to hard to explain and even if I did they might sound to X-rated for this site. (No they weren't bad just the description would sound so) Takyra would stand in front of the instructor and do her form just as the instructor told her and as soon as the instructor looked away Takyra could care less about form and just hurried to get to the end of the mat. This happened most with back walkovers. I got dizzy watching her. They had a relay race into the foam pit. It's a pit full of foam sqaures and it's quite a workout to get through. The first two times they raced, Takyra's team was way behind and she was the last person for her team. Both times she made a comeback and won it for her team. YOU GO GIRL! then the instructor thought it was unfair and moved the other teams fast girl back with Takyra. Hey now! So someone must have said something about it because they moved Takyra up in her group. Guess what! She was still fast and made up enough time that even though their slowest person was last they still won! Yea! Hercules! Hercules! My baby! Yes, I am the competitive mom up in the stands. Most of the videos of her gymnastics have me commentating, saying " My kid's better than your kid!" I won't be starting any fights any time soon...hopefully never and I don't have the shirt with her picture on it, but I just might have to make one now that I have these great pictures of her.
I had always thought my kids would play softball and baseball. Even thought Takyra can bat both right and left handed, she can't catch a ball to save her life. Her throwing isn't much better. Her asthma is too bad for soccer, and she was never really into Tae kwondo. ( The only sport I could think of at the time that wouldn't cause her asthma to flare up) So, we lucked out that one day we saw the new gym being built down the street from us. She always did cart wheels during Tae kwondo. Why not? I kind of get to live my dreams through her, but not really. I remember watching the Olyimpics and wanting to do gymnastics. i remember trying to teach myself a back handsrping up in my room, using my mattress as padding. Luckily, I didn't break my neck that day, but I still remember the stinging pain and the fear that I might have.
Takyra still lacks the feminie grace that most gymnasts have, but she's having fun and looks so cute out there. One day, she might be an Olympic gymnast. The only other sport we figure she'll qualify for is the halfpipe since she loves the snowboard. Whether she achieves either of those or not, I'm not worried. She gorgeous and she's smart and she'll make it in this world no matter what!

When snow melts

What do you do when snow melts? Well, if you are Takyra, you get what snow is left and rebuild your snowboard/sled ramp. She had a bucket and was scooping what snow was left in the back yard. Mema ( her grandma) had helped her build a ramp off the deck when it was snowing yesterday. There were some bare spots, but she took snow from the yard and built it back up again. She made a path that went straight to the fence. Hmm. If the path goes to the fence, where do you think the girl goes? To the fence. Unfortunately, there are now some loose boards on the fence. But hey, she had a blast. I watched from the kitchen as she would go down the ramp and do one of three things: turn before the fence, fall down before the fence, or plow rigth into the fence ( her favorite). She has mastered the snowboard and would try to jump her way back to the ramp. She never got very far and had to take it off and walk back up. I had hoped to go to the mountains and get her snowboarding lessons this year. Unfortunately, my shoulder injury kept that from happening. We were going to take lessons together. I might still take her up and let her do the lesson without me. Until then, I just have to make sure she doesn't get brave and build the next ramp from the roof of the house. I hope you enjoy the pictures. Check out the form on that snowboard!

SNOW..it must be Spring!

The one picture is of Takyra and Boomer last week. Sunday, they called off the evening services after learning we had a huge snow storm headed our way. It was supposed to be here by 3pm Sunday and it was supposed to bring many inches of snow. Schools and businesses prepared for closures. Don't you know that if youplan for something, it never happens like you expect. it's only when you aren't prepared that something big happens. it rained all evening and turned to snow around 8 pm. Even so, it snowed all day Monday. Businesses were open and schools were just delayed an hour. When Takyra got home from school, she played with the neighbors and I took her adn her friend Matt over to the hill close by the house. Takyra thought it would be fun to have Boomer pull her down the hill with her on the sled. He didn't like that idea too much. He'd prefer catching snowballs. They played on their sled sand snowboards for awhile, then decided to go down on a sled together. Bad idea as they hit the fence and Matt's back hit a big post. He was hurting the whole way home. Luckily, there was no major damage and he bounced back like every other 9-year-old boy. Snow always come right at Springtime. I'll take it soe long as I don't have to drive in it.

OH NO 31!!!

I have been asked to put some birthday pictures on here, so here they are. I got verything I asked for...well almost everything. even so, they did good. I started making jewelry when I realized I'd be out of the hair business with my shoulder injury. I enjoy making bracelets and necklaces, but kept running out of beads, so I asked for beading supplies. I think I'll be able to make several pieces with all that I got. I got a Mickey Mouse shirt, some hiking shoes, some water treckers, a necklace that Takyra and my mom made, and a four leaf clover wind spinner. So 31 was really no big deal, but I got very nice presents.

Ouch!!

This will be kind of short as I am typing with one hand. I don't care about typos so long as you understand what I'm saying and my jumbled words aren't bad ones.
I had surgery yesterday. I will take labor and delivery over that pain anyday. I wasn't warned about the pain after. First of all I thought it was going to be arthroscopic...it wasn't. She doesn't like to do it that way since she removed part of the bone. She says it leaves bone fragments inside the shoulder which causes infection. So, I had the end of my acromium removed and tenotomy ( stimulation of the tendon to restore blood flow) and she had to cut me open to do so. Both injuries were the result of my car wreck back in January.
I woke up from the anesthesia ( Anastacia for Tari) at exactly 11:13 and I was not pleasant. I was in so much pain. I was lying flat on my back and the pressure on my shoulder was horrible. I got LOTS of morphine which had me zonked all day yesterday. When it was time for me to get dressed to go home, the nurse was very rough. She was movin g my arm around like it was rag doll and the next thing I knew I was feeling way lighthead and she was yelling for a nurse to help. I almost passed out from the pain. I wanted to yell at her, but greater forces and drugs controlled my temper.
I am like a baby again. My mommy has to help me do the most intimate of hygeine details, and I just have to let go of my independence until I get better. Takyra is loving being my helper. Her favorite part is brushing and braiding my hair ( the braids get better each time). I have a pain pump still inserted in my shoulder for the next couple of days so I am trying to move my arm like they want me to without hurting myself, but I also have to remember to take the pump everywhere I go (that's what the black strap around my neck is to). I am trying to spend as much time out of the sling as possible to try to speed up my recovery. Hopefully it goes pretty fast and I can get back to normal (or as close as possible for a LeBlanc).
Thank you for your prayers so far and I ask that you continue to pray for my recovery.