The little Finger that Couldn't.....

My poor littlest Big Girl cut her finger on Wednesday afternoon and this is the little finger's story.

Well it started Thursday afternoon when all chaos hit the Welch house. Bella had cut her finger pretty bad and it was bleeding and bleeding and bleeding so we are trying to get it to stop bleeding, figure out if we need to go to the hospital, clean up the blood, get her to calm down, get the other 3 kids to calm down AND when Marcus picked up Aden from his walker, because he had started crying b/c he heard Bella crying, he had poop coming out of his diaper and the older kids paniced and laid him down on the floor b/c it was gross. ALL at the SaMe time. :) Of Course!

So mom is trying to be calm and not actually laugh about the whole situation or go NuTs. Because she can't believe this is all happened At The Same Time.

Anyways we finally get it all cleaned up Bella, Aden all the counters, sink and floor! It took us almost 40 minutes to get the poor little finger to stop bleeding and get a bandaid to stay on.

So later on in the afternoon it's time for bath. Bella is all ready for it, except she doesn't want me to touch her finger. Now I really would have just left it alone, but it had still been oozing blood and it was on the outside of the bandaid. I thought that if she got into the shower it would just start bleeding and the bandaid would just come off. So we slowly and in between fits get the bandaid off and the poor little finger started bleeding again. At this point we have yet to actually see how bad the cut is b/c we can't see it due to it keeps bleeding. Mom is throwing a fit b/c she thinks we should go to the Dr. just b/c it won't stop bleeding, but Dad says no he doesn't think it's needed. We get it into another bandaid and then we wrap it with some gauze and medical tape to try and make sure the bandaid stays on while in the shower. Thank Goodness it did and we made it through the night.

So now it's Thursday..... no major issues today. When we did take the old bandaid off it oozed quite a bit, but we immediately put another bandaid on.

This evening we are getting calm down and Mom, Dad, Bella and Aden are sitting on our bed playing and all the sudden I see blood on Aden's head, then on Bella's arm, then on mom's arm. This poor little finger had started bleeding AgAin. I was afraid somthing was wrong. So we try and get it cleaned up and it won't stop bleeding again, so Dad called the Dr., after hours hotline as I call it, and they tell us we should probably have it looked at since it just keeps bleeding.

SO off to the hospital dad, Marcus and Bella go at 9PM. Mom didn't go b/c she didn't know if she could handle it if Miss Bella had to get a stitch. (Iremember what they have to do to keep them still while stitching and I just knew Bella would freak out) So the Dr. says no stitches, but puts a thick hardening foam on it that is suppse to form to it like a band aid to help close it up and stop the bleeding. Frank says our little BiG girl did so good and didn't even cry at all. When the Dr. asked to see her finger, and cleaned it and put the stuff on it she just sat there being such a big girl. AND they were only gone for an hour and a half total. WOW!

My kiddo's are so tough. Everytime something mom panics about b/c she thinks the kids will panic they don't. They are so brave and tough. They are kinda like their momma they tough it up and put on a brave face.

So that's our adventure with the little finger that couldn't.

My Wish for You!

A new school year and mom's nerves are on edge. My Natalie did so well last year almost all straight A's, just 1 B the last semester. She was so so proud. Will she do that well this year? Will she continue to love school and be able to make friends? And Marcus OMGoodness I have an 11 year old going into 5th grade.....YA in Middle School. I remember just saying to my sister in law that I am so not ready for all that when her son went in. Will he hate school? Will he get in with the wrong croud? What?When?Where?andHow?

So my wish, dream and prayer for my oldest children is this:

I pray you will wake up every morning and be humble, know that you are blessed and remember each day is the day God has made, please always rejoice and have joy in it. Be kind, keep your eyes, ears and heart open, remember God loves you and is watching over you. Listen and learn and be wise. Eat good, take care of yourself, take care of others and remember God loves you and is watching over you. And always remember mom and dad love you so so so so much and we are so proud of you and who you are.

There will be more prayers always, but this is for you to start this new year with. Please always come to us for anything because we can all do all things through Christ!

Love you Always!

Mom

To Do....

It's Natalie's last week before she goes back to school. She is so so excited. There are so many things to be done. This summer has flown by. It's Crazy.

• We are taking Marcus to Mamaw's, Nana's and Aunt Hannah's this week to stay a week
• Natalie starts school on Monday
• Friday night is Date Night
• Sat. we are Serving the Lord's people by handing out snacks and drinks at the local ER's

My goodness, we are definatly back on to our "NORMAL" lives. :)

Football season is almost here and Natalie is signing up for Cheerleading. This is sure to be a fun fall! We will update with pictures soon!

Where we are.

Ok guys so it's the end of July 2009. This has been an interesting/hearbreaking/growing year so far. God has blessed us in many ways as the economy has been at it's worse and daddy still has his job and things have been great with it, we still have a home, we are all here together. The older 2 have done so great in school this year. The babies are healthy and getting big so fast and me, mom, I am here soaking it all in and learning to take life day by day and live through God.

We have had some trials also, as we lost Po in June. It was a struggle, but we know he will struggle no more and is living it up in Heaven with our father. It gave us strength as I think we have never had before. It opened my eyes to the bigger world. I love him so so much and can't wait for the day I will see him again.

Our big adventures for the year have been when Frank and the kids went campig for Father's Day weekend with some friends. They had a blast and got to go out on the boat and go tubing, we went to the zoo, the older 2 went to Camp War Eagle and LOVED it then a week later went to Dry Gulch with the church and LOVED that. We also got to go to Branson and the kids went to Silver $ City with their grandma's. Marcus rode Wild Fire and Powder Keg for the first time. He LOVED it.

We have been blessed this year. This is what we had and here's to looking at the rest of the year.

Living, Learning, Growing in Life

We all by nature think in the world's way. That is where we were born. But the world's way is backwards to reality. It is a fantasy world. When we are born into God's world we enter reality.

It's good to hear this from time to time. Because we do daily, weekly, monthly, hourly forget.

I have been growing in God all my life, learning life's lessons, growing up if you will. I often think, man if I could just write a book to make kids understand that when people say if I'd only known then what I know now. :)

This is why I am starting this blog. To hopefully tell, show, teach my children the ways of the world the way I learned and went through it.

It's an amazing journey to live and I hope they will have as much joy in life that I hope to give them.