The Welsh Family

Where to start, much has happened since the last time I’ve updated this blog.

Kailey is SIX MONTHS OLD!! Crazy how fast time flies! She likes trying new foods, at least most of the time, and is getting bigger every day! She is talking, sitting, and rolling. She is one of those babies that really digests what she sees, hears and touches. She just realized that she controls her hands and fingers, so now see looks at her hands and fingers intently and turns and bends them in front of her face. She loves watching other children and playing with “kitty”. I am not sure if the cat really likes it, but he is the one that comes asking for it. Ever since she was born Kailey has always been pretty mellow. People keep asking us if were going to have more children soon and we keep telling them that we’re not going to any better then Kailey and we’ve decided to pass on anymore. J Although Kailey is a wonderful child we’ll have to consider some more as soon as the Physician Assistant Program is well underway. Well Kailey just had her 6 month old check up with the pediatrician and is doing great! She is now above average in a lot of area other then her weight, so that’s for all the people that think she is small for her age. Remember they are only supposed to double their birth weight by 6months! :) Kailey is wonderful! What can we say we are biased.

I had my interview for the University of Washington Physician Assistant program the 2nd of November. So in October I spent time getting ready for the interview. The interview went great. It is apparently the “peace corps” process of interviews. The process is you and two other applicants go into a room with two interviewers. They then asked everyone the same questions with some variance. Which made it so that you had to be at least somewhat original compared to the other two applicants. There were three rounds of interviews with an essay and English comp. test in between. Then at the very end there was a social to meet with staff who hadn’t interviewed you. It was intense, but I remembered what my Father had told me, “You’re going to graduate school. It might not be this one this year, but you will go.” It helped me be calm during the interview, and really be myself.
I got an acceptance call the Tuesday before Thanksgiving while at work. It was awesome! Since I will be starting the PA program in March I have stopped attending the UW-Bothell BSN program with Chelsie. We have been paying tuition out of pocket and it’s hard to have both of us going while trying to save some money for PA school. I plan to continue to work in the ER at Valley Medical Center until I begin full time on campus in late June. Then I will go per diem!

Chelsie is still working as a labor/delivery nurse at Valley Medical Center’s Birth Center. She has a lot on her plate with finishing her Bachelors at the University of Washington, Working, being the ward’s canning specialist, and most important; being a Mom! She continues to manage everything very well!
So David thinks! J It’s hard trying to do so much. Thank goodness I love my job because this schedule of mine would be a lot harder. Working with pregnant women is blessing no matter whatever I say in the moment. Yes, there are really hard times, but there is nothing more awesome then assisting with the delivery of such beautiful blessings.
School is not my most favorite thing, but I really enjoy learning new things. U of W is a totally different world. Their way of thinking is good, but different. I am taking this toxicology class right now and oh my gosh if you know how much we are killing ourselves and our children you’d freak out. Obviously you need to take all the information into perspective, but there is a lot of things we just don’t we are doing. Anyways, just don’t ever take a toxicology class and then you will never have to fear the things you and your family are introduced in everyday life. If you are interested especially those of you that are pregnant or planning to get pregnant look at the website www.toxipedia.org it’s awesome!
Anyways, now that I am starting bore you look at some more pics of our beautiful baby! J She definitely did not get her looks from us.

Here are a whole bunch of pictures of Kailey and th