Doctors for all

Aaliyah playing in the pool while it was being filled.

Aaliyah was putting "lipstick" on it was actually a washable marker.

Aaliyah and daddy at the carnival.

One of my favorite pictures of all time.

and another...

bath time at grammys.

Ciara and great grandma Barnoff

This past week has been quite an interesting one, but we made it through! Last Tuesday night Aaliyah, Ciara, Grandma and Grandpa Benson, and I went up on Benson hill to have mountain pies. Grandma had brought a knife up to cut the onion and while no one was looking Aaliyah cut her left index finger down to the bone. We went up to the ER and she had to get 3 stitches put in. She was such a trooper though!!! She only cried a little bit but I think it was because she was scared. Afterwards the doctor gave her lots of stickers and she was happy as can be. She has to have a band aid on it at all times though. If she can see those stitches she freaks out! I have been trying to uncover them when she is sleeping so they can get some air. We went back to the doctor on Thursday to have the stitches checked and she got even more stickers then. She is in sticker heaven!

On Wednesday Ciara woke up with another horrible diaper rash. I called in to see if they could call in the cream that worked for her last time, but they needed to see her first. So I took her in when I took Aaliyah for her appointment. She weighed in at a wonderful 7lb 4oz. I was amazed. I got a refill for her cream and the rash is completely gone. The doctor wants me to put the cream on for a month and hopefully it will stay away. She is completely out of preemie clothes and we have moved on to newborns. She's growing fast! Praise the LORD!!!

I just got home from the hospital today. I went in yesterday to get my tubes tied and have an ablation done. Well when the doctor put the hysterscope in my uterus a small tear occurred. Luckily she was also doing a laparoscopy and she noticed the tear before she put the solution in my uterus. So she just tied my tubes and decided not to put the burn solution in my uterus to do the ablation. When the tear occurred I had some fluid build up behind my uterus and when I came out of surgery I was in so much pain I honestly felt like I was in labor. They gave me every pain medication they could think of. They did a CT scan to make sure everything was ok and the only thing they saw was the build up of fluid. I was in too much pain for them to send me home so they kept me overnight. I slept on a heating pad and surprisingly the only pain med that worked was Tylenol with codeine. I felt much better this morning and was able to come home. Corey took care of the girls by himself last night and he said it went very well. Aaliyah got up at 3:30 and asked him to rock her and then he just put her back in bed with him. He said Ciara got up at 2 and then not again until 9!!! Now either she had a really awesome sleep or Corey didn't hear her crying for a long time!!! Either way she is fine and they survived the night without me. I now have to decide if I want to try the ablation again. Everyone I have talked to really felt better afterwards but I am quite scared of what will happen. I don't want to be in that much pain again. At least with real labor pains you get a beautiful baby out of it!!! I got nothing out of that pain yesterday. I go back to see my doctor in two weeks I will decide then.

All in all everyone is doing fine. Corey has a cold right now but I know him and he won't be stepping foot in any doctor's office unless he is dieing!!!

An update on our friend Barbara. The last I checked she was still in Children's hospital and the doctors could not figure out why her heart rate keeps going down. Please continue to pray for her and her family.

God has blessed us so much and we continue to praise him everyday!!!