More Pictures

Ok, here are a few more pics. the ones in the little blue striped shirt are from today, 6 days old. He is usually pretty content unless he thinks he is still hungry. but once he gets a full belly he is one happy dude. My milk still hasn't come in yet so we have been topping him off with formula a couple times a day, and when he gets his tummy completely full there is nothing you can do to upset him.
He is a strong little man too. When I put him up on my shoulder to burp him he not only holds his head up, but his back is straight too. He is so curious, want's to see everything.
Enough Talk, here is little Danton Jeremy, little but chubby.





Danton looks a lot like Lydia did. See for your self Danton...

And Lydia...

When Lydia came to see Danton in the Hospital for the first time Danton gave her a present. She thought that was pretty cool, even though she didn't have much interest in Danton at the time.

Update From the new Mom

All is well here in the house of Rone. My hospital stay was good...for staying in a hospital. The C section went great. The dr's and nurses as soon as it was over were all commenting on how smooth it went and how perfect of a c section it was. text book C section. That made me feel good. I remember them counting all their tools when it was over to make sure I didn't go home with a surprises in my stomach.
Danton was healthy from the get go. Chubby little guy, well more like fluffy. :) He got a 10 on his apgars or however you spell it.
It took me longer in the recovery room than it did Danton. They couldn't get my temp up. I was at 93. It was lower than that but that was the first temp they were able to read. so after an hour and a half of warm blankets and a machine called the bear hug to warm me up, they got me up to 97, and i could bend my knees ant toes a little bit too. That was amazing to me, it was a good 8-12 hours after Lydia was born that I could move anything.
The bear hug thing was a heated blanket. One side looked like an air hockey table with tons of holes in it and the other side had a port for a hose. They plugged the hose into it and turned on the machine and then the top side looked like giant bubble wrap. Tons of air pockets filled with warm air and the air came through the holes and warmed me up. That still took forever though.
Danton was born at 8:02 (7 lbs 8 oz 20 inches long) and by 8 that evening I got up and walked for the first time. Let me tell you i was surprised at how good I felt.
They put a shot of morphine in my IV and that lasted 24 hours. The only side effect was it made you itch. So I was feeling very little pain but constantly scratching my face (till I got full feeling in my lower half then EVERYTHING itched) I didn't complain, itching is WAY better then pain.
I didn't sleep great that night, and by 6 I got up and walked down the hall. I felt a little more pain that time. Then they took my cathader out and I had to get up to go to the bathroom an hour and a half later. Let me tell you I didn't know I could hold that much pee in me. It took FOREVER on the toilet cause I couldn't really use my muscles yet, but I think there was a good 4 cups that I peed out.
So Friday I basically slept a lot cause of my meds, but I felt better each time I got up. I walked around my room a lot, and sat in a real chair instead of the stupid bed. And Saturday I got to go home around 2. It took a while to get all the papers signed and everything.
Lydia came home with us Saturday, that was interesting seeing as how she didn't take a nap. Sunday morning Grandma came a got her, so she is with grandma and Grandpa Adams for a few days.
Danton LOVES to eat. HE is a grazer. He sleeps great at night which is nice. Our only problem is he wants to wait 30 mins to an hour between sides. So He woke me up about 5 times, last night, but that might be different when my milk comes in.
I am already feeling like I want to take over the counter meds instead of my prescriptions. I'm moving around just fine, just walking a little slow. I can get in and out of bed by my self with out too much trouble. My back is just really sore from being tense the last couple days every time I walked. But I'm feeling so much better every day. It's hard to take it easy and just sit on the couch like my Dr said, but I'm being a good girl. I don't want to slow my progression any.
So that's it. We are feeling pretty darn good.

Danton..

I Hijacked Sarah's blog so that I could post some pics.

Here is a full body pic.

Here is he is sleeping away the day.

Danton's Itinerary

Well tomorrow is the big day. Danton will be here! Horay. I'm glad I know that I don't have to try and sleep more than one more night. I was hoping I could be well rested this week, but not so. I'm sleeping like a pregnant woman, which is not all that restful.
Tonight Lydia is going to go stay with Granny and Papa, and then Mark and I have to wake up at 5ish to be at the hospital at 6.
Danton's "flight" doesn't arrive till 7:30, but you know how it goes, gotta be their PLENTY early so the Dr's don't wait on you, but you wait on them. I think 45 mins is ample time, but I guess I was wrong.
So Danton will be arriving around 7:30, and then they will wisk him away for APGAR's and bath and I guess Daddy can be there for all that, and I will stay and they will stich me all back up and then I'll have to go to recovery.
I had my pre admissions appointment yesterday and they said that if I want they can give me a good old sleepy drug while they are stitching me up and everything so nothing bothers me. I'm not sure if I want to do that or not. It makes me delusional and unable to focus, and for recovery that might be nice, but I don't know how long it will last. I don't want to be like that ALL DAY.
We will send out the phone calls tomorrow to let everyone know how things went, even though you all know when he will be here.
I'm mostly ready to go, I still have to finish packing our bags, and make sure I do the dishes after dinner tonight. But my house is all clean, like seriously it's the cleanest it's ever been. I worked on it every day this week so I didn't' overwhelm my self today.
Mark will probably post pictures tomorrow, if not, then at least by Friday I'm sure. Kinda depends on how the day goes and how tired he is when he gets home.

My Latest Project-yes it really plays

This was my project last week. It's a Cookie Tin Banjo, and yes it really works. I've had the tin since Christmas of 07 hoping that some day it would grow a neck and turn into a baby banjo and it finally did. The neck is a scrap 2X4 from my parents house, I got the tuners used from a local music shop, that's why they don't match, and I already had the strings.
Basically I drew up my plans on the 2X4 and cut it out with my jig saw, then I used my dremel tool to smooth out the corners and carve the notch out for the 5th string tuner, then I use a file to smooth up any nicks I added and finally my little palm sander, you know my "cute" one. It worked perfect. I drilled the holes for the tuners, then I just stained and varnished it.
Cutting the hole in the tin was a little tricky, and I didn't have the right size screws for the tuners, so I had to do some drilling to the tuners and cutting to the screws to get it to work, but I didn't' have to buy any hardware. :)
I already had the bridge, but I needed to sand it down and cut new notches for the strings.
The nut is a lid to a peanut butter jar that I cut up.
Nothing is really precise, i didn't measure anything, and I got lucky, the holes for the tuners were almost too far in to be able to turn them.
The video is what it sounds like, and my internet is being really stupid and not letting me edit the post the way I want to, so you get to guess what picture is what when I'm talking about it.

2nd birthday 2nd party

Last week for Lydia’s Birthday Grandma and Grandpa Adams came to our house and brought her a birthday party. Birthday cupcakes with frosting and sprinkles, candles, balloons and yes even presents. It was so fun. Lilly and Hyrum came too. Lydia did really good with the candles. We told her to blow them out and she blew very softly, you can see the one flicker in the picture

She only ate about ½ the cup cake…the frosted half

But she got the presents really well. She had Christmas and birthday with Granny and Papa Rone to practice opening presents. This is a bag Grandma made for Lydia

These are dishes, her favorite. She keeps them in the bag and carries them around. She has played with them almost constantly since she got them.

This is her annoying piano. But she doesn't play with it as much as I thought she would, and she is good to keep it in her room.

She is sitting on a little Barbie Princess stool. We needed a stool for the bathroom cause now that she is going potty several times a day she needs to be able to crawl up on the potty her self cause I can't lift her for 6 weeks after my C section (which is LESS than a week away).

And this was taken a few days ago, she likes mommy's slippers.

THUNBEAM! and Potty wonder

Sunday night driving home Lydia was so tired. It was already bed time but she wasn't falling asleep in the car. She likes to sing songs and she has a few favorites jinkey bells (jingle bells) thunbeam song (sunbeam) ABC's, I think there are one or two more but I can't remember them at this time. So as we were driving daddy asked her if she wanted to sing a song. No answer for a while. Then he started suggesting songs, he sang almost an entire song with her quiet in the back then we hear
"mommy, thunbeam"
you want me to sing sunbeam?
yeah
Jesus wants me for a sun-
Jinkey bells!
you want me to sing jingle bells?
mommy jinkey bells
Jingle bells jingle bells, jingle-
THUNBEAM!
I just sang sunbeam, you wanted me to sing jingle bells
Thunbeam. mommy, thunbeam
Jesus want's' me for-
No, ABC's
How bout YOU sing it Lydia.
(long pause)
You sing what song you want.
...thunbeam.
I gave up after that. There is no pleasing a cranky tired little girl

Something happened with the potty like over night this week. Over the past several months Lydia woudl go potty on the toilet once every couple weeks. Recently every time she actually went potty was when SHE asked to go, not when it was Mommy or Daddy's idea. But I knew with her I couldnt push the issue too much. She would do it when she was ready. It has to be her idea, she can be sutborn about a lot of things. So we tried to make the potty fun and positive. Yesterday she went 3 times, and each time she told us she needed to go! We were VERY excited.
She has been running a fever and has not been feeling well, she woke up last night with a high temp and I oculdnt give her more tylenol yet so I gave her a bath to try to help. after her bath I put her back in bed and she went back to sleep. This morning we were watching cartoons, well mmommy was holding Lydia on her lap, Lydia was watching, mommy was sleeping. She said potty a couple times but I just ignored it. Then a few mons later she said it again, she really wanted to go. So I made my self get up. She had to go find her dolly first though, then we ran to the bathroom and sat on the potty. Her diaper was STILL dry AND she went pee on the potty!
When she goes potty we wipe then put on a diaper, then flush and she likes to say goodbye to the potty, see you later. ...gee I hope not. Then we wash our hands and get arm candies. Though I think the arm candies are getting old. She LOVES to get them, but I dont think she has even eaten one, and she has had it for like an hour. But I guess it's still effective if as soon as she goes potty she gets excited adn says "Arm Candies?!" I think I might start a treat jar with a variety of little treats that she can choose one, maybe that will be more exciting.
Anyway, her progression has TOTALLY suprised me. I guess she is ready for the potty. She turned 2 and all of a sudden she is a big girl. Potty is not the only big girl change, it's just been the most dramatic. (in a good way)

REAL precnancy picture

Ok fine. As much as I don't want to remember it I took a real picture when I took the other ones. I figured if I STILL had enough people ask to see a real one THEN I'd post it. :) Just imagine me with a ball under my shirt. Well not just any ball, it's got to at least be bigger than a baseball. (but if you want to imagine me with a baseball size lump, you are more than welcome too) Um, nope a football is bigger than a baseball, but it just wouldnt look right I'm thinking. Try to imagine like a basketball, or a soccerball, or a playground ball.
Yep, I'd say that's about right. :) But still I think I look bigger in person. Well for sure I know I do now. That was taken Thursday and it's now Monday, and it feels like Danton grew 5 inches over the weekend. You know when you blow up a balloon and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and you think it's gonna pop, but you go ahead a blow one more time, it doesn't pop, so you blow one more time. Yeah, that's kinda what I feel like. STOP BLOWING! I CAN'T STRECH ANY MORE!! I swear one more blow and you will be able to see right through my stomach.
I'm 37 weeks today, offically considered full term. Ah, that's nice. but in 10 more days I will be no term. HORAY!