Can't select static mesh after foliage painting?

So this is bizzare , it was only selecting foliage again , and so i went to watch a movie and forgot and left the project on a few hours. When i came back it would select mesh’s again and the cursor changed to a regular cross, but when i select one , it (the gizmo) , only will let me move it in two of the three directions , but if i move the camera around it sometimes will let me move the 3rd direction. I am posting this info in case it may help us to figure out what is going on.