Am I a Christmas Decoration?

We hope everyone of you has a wonderful Christmas! We are so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends. Love Chad, April, Trevor, Logan and Kayson!

Who is so cute?

Yeah, I'm Stylin

Dad and Trevor went hiking again yesterday. We stopped here to rest in all the leaves.

Making a leaf angel.

We're all home! Trevor, Logan and Kayson are sitting together. The elephant that Trevor is holding and the blanket around Kayson are presents from his big brothers.

Here is a close-up of Kayson.

Kayson Chad Welch was born yesterday, 10-05-05 at 15:10 (I think he likes the number 5 and its multiples). He is 5 Lbs 14 Oz and 19 inches long. He and Mom are doing pretty good. He was taken to the NICU for observation and is working to breath a little, but we think it will just take a few hours to a couple days to transition and get used to real life. He was breach so Mom had a C-section. Her tummy is sore today, but she is recovering as best she can.

Logan's Home!

Yeah! We weren't expecting to bring him home for another couple of days, but this morning when the doctor came to look at him he said Logan was well enough to go home. He will be on a puree diet for at least two weeks until his next doctor appointment. His stomach is pretty tender, but as long as we hold him without putting our arm near the scar he seems pretty happy. He isn't sure about this puree diet. We had to hide any food sitting on the counter and we can't eat in front of him because he gets jealous and then mad if we don't offer him some. We are greatful that we can all be together in the same house again! Thanks again to everybody for all of your love and support!

Latest on Logan

Logan is still in the hospital recovering from his surgery. He was doing real well. He left the ICU earlier than expected and was handling liquids well. They decided to start him on solid foods last night. However, when he was eating his mac and cheese, he didn't chew good, so the pieces wouldn't go through the narrow opening of his stomach. He kept eating, but all he was doing is filling up his esophogus. When it was full, he of course started choking and couldn't breath. They had to suction him to pull the mac and cheese out. Afterwards they decided to do a broncoscopy to make sure he hadn't aspirated any and make sure they had removed all from his esophagus. They took him back to the PICU to watch him overnight and he's doing good enough this morning that they should be able to move him back to the regular floor. The doctors will have him on a puree diet at least until the swelling in his esophagus goes down. Any ideas on how to convince a 16-month old to chew better? Thanks for all of your support and love.