Being a parent is hard. Decisions. Decisions.

As parents we make so many choices for our children. We stress and worry if what we said or do with hurt them in the future. The topics go from breastfeeding, cloth diapers, carseats, school, chores, spanking, timeouts, diets and so on. 
As a family the breasfeeding comes up a lot since Hadley is still breastfeeding and is over 2 yrs. For the record. We are self weaning. She will stop when she is ready.
But an even bigger issue has been our diet. Hayden has a milk protein issue so we use almond/ coconut milk. Then we learned how bad cows milk is and then it opened a new door for our lives. We soon stoped cokes and processed food. That was great for our family and even helped calm hayden down. Crazy right? No,  not crazy, research showed that was common. So then we decided no more gluten and well that has changed out lives more than  we could even imagine. Hayden has calmed so much. He is focused and more interested in following through with projects. Shoot he even colored in the lines at church instead of scribbling just to be done.
So happy this change has been such a blessing. And we are only 90% gluten free and no processed foods.
With this we have been able to sit down and reevaluate a lot about our parenting and lifestyle. We realized we have been yelling alot. Way more than we ever thought or wanted to. So we have have decided, no more yelling. None at all.  We are working on listening and explaining. We still do thinking spots. But yelling is no more.
The main reason this even came up was the other day Hayden spilt his milk and freaked out yelling " I'm so sorry mommy, im so sorry" i was speechless for a second then said " its ok baby let's just clean it up" I could not believe my son was afraid to spill milk. What kind of mom am I that my son was afraid to spill milk.  I never thought I yelled or got mad about things that can be fixed or corrected.  So now I am taking a breath and talking to myself before I respond to an incident. And others around my kids we are expecting the same. My kids will learn consequences for their actions. But that is cleaning up the mess or a thinking spot  and a talking to, not being yelled at. We yell no more. Needless to say our household has been calmer and more peaceful these days. Glad I was able to learn from my mistakes. Thats the best part about being a parent, you can correct your mistakes with parenting. What's the saying? Know better.  Do better. ♥

Splash Town june 2013

As a prize for finishing school and doing so well we took hayden to splash town. He wanted hadley to join. So we all went. Hadleyb woke me that morning about anbinch from my face band her yelling "splash town today"
Haydeb did all the rides he was tall enough for. While on space rapids he flipped out of his tube and he said "I'm big but that's for bigger kids" the loved leaky pipes and the pirate section. Both hated the wave pool when waves were going. Hayden tried to drown me. Hadley was scared of most slides but did do a few with mommy and daddy and one with hayden.  
The best part is we ran into brians brother, wife and the neices . The kids had a blast together. Best family day we has in a while. Kids love water just like their momma ♥

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Hayden update!,

Hayden is almost 5 as he says! :) he started pre-k in thw fall. He loves it. His teacher brought to.out attention that he was lip reading and could not hear if not facing you. That brought alor of  things ro our attention. His speach, his atrwntuon span, his grabbing your face to look at him when talking to him.
So we took him in for his hearing test. He had 95/85% hearing loss due to middle ear issues from a broken nose causeing mucus drainage to build up. That new broke my heart as a monny to hear this.
We  started nasal steroids to dry up the mucus. It worked. He was hearing better, not great but better. Only problem was insomnia. The child has sleep issues as it is. With the medicine it was keeping.him awake till 6 am with meletonin. Poor fella. Our next option was tubes.
We really could not afford it. Would be close to 2 grand. So.we tried changing medicine time and dosage. Nothing worked and Hayden slowly became mean and hateful and not sleeping. So Brian and I sat down and talked. We both cried. We didnt know.what to do. But we prayed hard and talked with hayden and decidEd to stop the meds and save for the.surgery. Then we got a letter saying insurance would cover the Surgery! We were so happy, but short lived. We later got a call saying we woukd need 3 grand as a deposit. I criex so hard then prayed then called my dad. Anything for my son. We have been working on ASK but if I could help him hear I wanted to. So pawpaw Lent us the money! Thank God!
Hayden had the Surgery. He had a ruff few days. He begged for his old ears back and woukd cry when people talked. But a few days later he was doing well. He was talking better and being silly. I do miss.hearing "I love you eating!" He.doesnt say it anynore. We may never know what it meant. But I LOVE seeing his face light up to new sounds as he hears something and says "you hear that momma. I hear tbat" crickets wad a rememberable favorite. He was so happy.
He has adjusted great surgery was January it is now April. He is thriving in school and is talking so mucb and clear. He lives documentaries. We took him to the natural science museum and boy did he have a blast. He love dinosaurs and  sceince. Such a smart boy.
He still has off days and we have to make sure he ia looking at us. Or when in large groups we have to sign because.he gets over whelmed and cant concentrate enough to process all the sounds. He passes his hearing  test at 50% & 65% not the best but so perfect and  blessing for sure. God is great!

Sick babies!

Been awhile since I posted. Have a  preschooler and a toddler keeps me on my toes. Ill do an update post soon!
But for now. This momma needa to vent. Sick babies for going on 3 Weeks now! With myself sick in the middle. First Hadley had a bacterial infection, onlt symptoms was fever and her complaining of back pain. Her kidneys started shutting down because she was not drinking. we had antibiotics and shots and er  visits. Then a week later momma was sick. Then after 2 days if ni one sick Hayden wakes up vomiting at 2 am. Then Wednesday its Hadley's turn at 5 am. I have seriously not slept in like 3 Weeks. I dont want tk catch this bug. Been lysoling as I pray. I just go room to room and Lysol.and prat and wash everything anyone  touches. "aint none got time for that" is exactly how I feel. Blaaaaah.
I can not take cleaning any more poop or vomit. I cant even count how many times in 4 days! Plus sleep would be nice. Very nice actually.
So tomorrow I get a Mommies night out. Daddy is gonna watch the kids and Kami and I and my mom are going to drink and.watch The Host. I cant not wait. I am so ready!
Well I feel a bit better!