Our Little Aden

He is our baby, but it's going so fast and he wants to be such a big boy. This past weekend he started sleeping on his big boy bed. He loved it. Thought he was such a big boy laying there with Bella. He got his first big boy hair cut over the 4th weekend and it seems like it changed everything. He says yes for yes and no for no. It's so cute to see him answering questions. And sometimes when you tell him something he will say K (for ok). As with all the kiddo's it just seems like all the sudden over night they are big.

It's funny b/c alot of his words he is lazy with and he will just say the beginning or end of the work. Like Bella.....he can say Bella but most of the time it's Be with a short e carried, or Natalie is Naaaa with a short a carried. Even though he can say it.

Thank you God for our little blessings!

He is all about making messes. Forget his room (s) sull of toys, NOPE he wants to get into the closets and bookshelves and pantry and his FAVORITE place in the house is Bubba's room. :)

Here we go Again......

So I have been trying to decide weather or not to talk about all this sickness CRAP or not. I feel it is a part of my life right now, it's a huge struggle, but something I need support and prayer about, so here it all is.

Iam actually a little frightened this go round. I know whatever is to happen will happen. I am in God's hands always.

Now all my life I have had a sensitive stomach so I called it. A little over 2 years ago I started having have big problems with my stomach. Had all kinds of wonderful expensive tests ran, and when I say lots I mean lots by 2 different specialist. In the end it came down to I have Gilbert’s disease, which makes me turn jaundice, and ended up taking Nexium for 3 months when the symptoms finally eased. They also decided that my stomach doesn't digest food quiet as fast as it should so therefore I have to watch what I eat and can't take ANY pill form of vitamin. My stomach gets irritated VERY easily b/c the food or what ever sits there too long.

So it's been a little over 2 years and a few weeks ago I thought I had the same stomach flu that everyone else in NWA had. But then it didn't go away and so after a week of it and dizziness so bad I couldn't walk I finally went to the Dr. They thought I had a bacterial infection in my stomach. After coming home and talking to Frank about everything we realized it was the same thing hitting me again, after 2 years.

This time there are more symptoms and they are a lot more severe than they were before. I have since been to the Dr. 3 times in 2 weeks, had blood tests 3 times, among some other not so fun tests, x-rays, and an ultrasound. All for a huge amoung of $, just so they could tell me they don't know it's something beyond what they can do. So I have to go back to the specialist and have some of the same test done all over again.

I am a little frustrated this go round if you couldn't tell. Throughout my life I have been sick a lot. The only times I was actually really healthy is when I am pregnant. Since I had my last baby I told Frank I don't want to get sick any more, I want to get healthy. Exercise and eat right.
This sickness comes and goes as it pleases. Some days I feel fine like nothing is wrong, other days I can't get off the floor b/c I am so lathargic. I HATE it. I don't have the time, patience, money or stomach for it. <-- Ha Ha stomach for it.

Anyways, that's my rant about it. There isn't very good outcomes for what all this leads too, so I am very frustrated with my body. I know God is in control, he is my healer and I give it to him daily. Just today and many days I need to rant.

Just Me Being Goofy!

I found this fun website were you can add fun effects to your pictures. This was fun for me! Check out my funny pics!

Too Funny!

Oh Ya, New Hair Do :)

I also cut myself some bangs yesterday, he he. Totally shorter than planned, but I can go with it.

Remember When

Remembering when the kiddo's where little.......

My mind is more than gone I am sure these days. So many times I want to sit down and remember things and my mind is just blank, or thinking about other things that I need to do. So since I am now a blogger....well I am going to blog it.

I remeber when Natalie was just litte, not even walking yet, she would go into Marcus' room because she wanted to play with him and even though they didn't really play together she would just want to be in there. Her favorite thing to do was open his dresser drawers and throw all the clothes out onto the floor. She would just giggle and laugh.

I remember when Marcus got his first power wheels jeep for Christmas. He slept in the living room with it for like 2 nights.

I remember when Marcus was a baby and he had a big head full of blonde curls. Everyone thought he was a beautiful girl no matter what color I dressed him in. So then dad finally convinced mom to cut it and the curls have never come back.

I remember when Marcus used to get mad because Natalie always had to go where he went. Now Natalie says this weekly about Bella.

I remember when Marcus was about 4 or 5 and he would get in trouble, Natalie would go and try to sit with him in timeout. He never attempted to do the same for her though. :)

This makes my day remembering. I think this just might become an ongoing thing. I think I will call it Remember When Wednesdays! So fun. Now maybe I could dig through the photo boxes and find the pictures to go with the adventures!

UUUmmmm I think I'm freaking Out

** Warning....Kinda Gross Details**

So I have been on this wanting to loose weright kick, well kind of, in my mind anyways. I just haven't been able to get motivated to do it. So a while back Frank had bought me some weight loss pills to try (I have never taken ANY kind before) and I had tried them, but then there was a lot going on and I was traveling a lot and couldn't stay on schedule so I had quit taking them.

Well this morning I get up and say to myself I am starting over and this time I will do it right. So I get my healthy breakfast ready and my pill and take it with no problems, get on with my morning, did some exercies, cleaned some house, went outside to play and BAM! We are playing outside and all the sudden I feel this rush (I thought I was going to throw up it hit so fast). I couldn't figure out what was going on. I felt like I was shaking all on the inside and the insides were about to come out of my body. I couldn't figure out what was wrong. I had exercised, eaten breakfast and OOHHHHH taken pills. So I go and get the DIET/CRAZY pills so I can read the fine print and there is says CAFFEINE and LOTS of it. Man cokes have nothing on caffeine. I felt like I needed to jerk my body around so that it could keep up with all the freaking out my insides were doing.

Called Frank and said "I am freakin out man." After his good laugh he said ya that's a lot of caffeine for your little body. Ha Ha Ha

So needless to say I am going back to my old ways and exercise it is for me.

Hopefully. Maybe. HA..HA HA Good Luck to Mom.

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.