Prego Pics

Some of you have been asking for pregnancy pictures. So today I had Mark take a few pictures from a few different angles so you could see what I look like at 36 weeks (basically 8 months) pregnant.
My C section is exactly 2 weeks from today, I'm counting just encase you're not. And today is Lydia's 2nd birthday. Happy Birthday Lydia.

Lydia's 2nd Birthday

Lydia's birthday is Thursday the 29th, so we celebrated yesterday with the Rones. We went straight their after church and put Lydia down for her nap before everyone else got there. She only slept for an hour, then I hear her cry. I went in to check on her and to my utter suprise she had thrown up. *If talk of puke makes you queezy, just skip to the pictures, they are of the birthday party*
We put her in the tub, and she freaked out. I don't think she understood what was happening, the last time she got sick like this was when she was like 8 or 9 months old, so she doesn't remember throwing up.
She threw up just about once an hour whiel we were there, then she woudl want to be held for a few mins then she was up and playing again, you'd have never known she was sick. Then all of a sudden it woudl come up. We washed a few sets of clothes before we gave up and let her run around in a diaper. I got puked on a few times too. Mostly water...mostly, there was still some puke smell to it though.
WE had he party after dinner. Her Great Aunt Sue made her the most adorable Monkey birthday cake, she loved it.We didn't do candles, and we didn't get to close to the cake while everyone was singing to her.Later on after the cake was 1/2 eaten she saw it in the kitchen and got very concerned.
"Mommy, Monkey! A broken!" She didn't totally understand that it was cake, cause she didn't get to eat it. And she didn't see it getting cut up either.Granny and Papa got her a broom, (which she cuddled with later after another sick episode)And they also got her a princess dress up dress. She LOVES her new dress. We didnt let her wear it till today when we knew she was feeling better, so till then she just carried it around
"Oh so pretty! Pretty dress. Oh so soft. Pretty dress" and so on. We put it on her today and she just dances around, What a fun gift!Grandma and Grandpa are comming later on in the week and never fear they will bring birthday candles so she can blow out the candles and eat some cake, you can't be deprived of that on yoru birthday.

Scheduled C Section

So Lydia, like always, with her birth did things when and how she wanted. She was head down my ENTIRE 3rd trimester and the a few hours before I went into Labor she flipped around to a breech position. And I had FAST labor.
Readers digest of a short story, Talked to my DR he did a quick exam and sent me in a wheel chair across the hospital to have a c section. I had about 30 between the exam and the time Lydia was officially born.
I wanted to do VABC, recovery is so much easier, and there is no "limit" on the number of children you can have. Now I don't think I want 10 kids. And we may only end up with 4, at this point I think I want more than that, but the Lord knows how many kids need to be sent to our family. After having my Dr talk to me about the risks of a VBAC and encourage me to have a C section I rethought my preferences, made it a matter of much prayer and took it to the temple as well.
I have come to the conclusion that although I'd still prefer VBAC I feel I should do a C section, and I'm no longer nervous or freaked out or sad about it. I'm excited that I know when Danton will be born and there is no longer a guessing game.
What risks? do you ask? 1 in 100 chance of uterine rupture. Normally I'll take my chances, sounds painful, but with the same odds I'd take my chances with a lot of other things as well. But the rupture has serious conciquences. The biggest one being brain damage to the baby. I think I couldnt live with my self if a decision I made cause my baby to suffer from any amount of Brain damage.
So now you know the reason I have opted to do a planned C section, also the fact that I wont have to expirence Labor sounds AWESOME!
So when is it do you ask? the big day is:
THURSDAY FEBURARY 12.
That is in 4 weeks for thoes who are not infront a calendar, I am due on the 24, so that is almost 2 weeks earlier. I'm SO excited.

And I have had a request for a prego picture from a few of you, you won't get it today, but I will post ONE sometime before I go in. Just picture me with a basket ball under my shirt and you about have it. :)

Chitty Chitty bang bang

So first off I gotta say it really sucks when you can't sleep very well in your third trimester cause you are always so uncomfortable, and your neck is always sore, and THEN you get "sick" on top of that. I have sick in "quotations" because I have a touch of a sore throat and congestion. I don't really call that sick, to me sick is bed ridden, or puking your guts up, I'm not really sick, I just don't feel well. :) But when you already aren't getting the rest that you need when you sleep, being "sick" on top of that has made me totally drowsy and near worthless all day.
Anyway, on Tuesday Lydia asked to watch a movie, and so I looked at all my movies to find one Lydia would like, and that I wasn't already sick of. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang it is. She didn't finish it then so yesterday she asked me to watch it again, but it took me a min to realize what she was saying.
"Mom! A Shebang-bang, a shebang-bang!" I finally got it and just let it resume from where she left off. I went back in the kitchen to finish what I was doing. It got to the part in the movie where chitty gets surrounded with water and the Pirates are shooting at them. All of a sudden Lydia ran up to the entrance to the kitchen and looked VERY worried,
" Mommy! A shoot shebang-bang. A shoot shebang-bang! Shebang-bang a boken, fick it! A shoot shebang-bang!"
By the time I realized what was going on she was getting quite frantic. So I had to come sit for about 5 min and watch the movie with her and explain that Chitty was going to be ok. Then I went back to the kitchen, a few mins later thought I was intrupted again, this time she was nearly in tears
"Mommy, a Sheban-bang boken, a fick it! Fick it! A Shebang-bang" and so on. This time it was intermission. Intermission in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, if you don't know, come as Mr. Pots drives chitty off the side of a sheer cliff with Truly and his children in the car. A very tense part of teh show if you have never seen it before. So not only was Chitty bang bang not on the tv any more, he was in trouble and Lydia couldnt see what was going on.
This picture was when she watched it lateryesterday evening and intermission came on again, this time is is worried and is telling Daddy, I missed the really dramatic face though.

These pictures were from yesterday, Daddy got home from work and Lydia thought his stuff looked like fun, so she tried it out.

Sawah

Lydia was playing, entertaining her self yesterday, and she was talking while she was playing like she usually does. Then I start hearing her say a NEW word, she was talking about Sawah. I wasn't sure if she was talking about me at first or not, but then she looked at me and told me something calling me Sawah. It was actually really cute the way she said it. Sometimes when she wants her daddy she will call him Mawk.
So I reminded her that I am Mommy, not Sarah. So she says "A Mommy, a Sawah, a Mommy"

The best 5 years

Yes folks, 5 years. Mark and I celebrated our 5th anniversary on Saturday. How crazy is that. I wanted it to be a great day, well at least not a crappy boring day, so I made lunch (which usually I don't) I made biscuits and gravy, tried a new recipe and it ROCKED, I posted the recipe in the previous post, along with a potty training update. Anyway so Lunch was awesome. We didn't do much durring the day. Lydia refused to take a nap and it was too cold to go play out side, and we were stuffed from lunch for quite a while.
I was going to make Lasagna and cheesey garlic french bread for dinner but I had to run to the store to get everything. Lydia was driving her daddy crazy so I took her with me. She fell asleep in teh car on teh way there for about 7 mins, and that was her nap for the day.
We got what we needed and then got a red box movie (but had to go to a different red box cause wal mart didn't have the movie we wanted. So I came home and got dinner going and fed Lydia someting else cuase she was already hungry. That worked out perfect, she went to bed early and we got to have a stay at home date.
We had a nice candle lit dinner (something we have never done before cause we didnt have the candles for our candle sticks), and then we watched our movie, and Lydia was in bed the whole time. It was great.
There was no way of knowing what we were in for the day we got married, what successes and what trials we would have together, all I knew is that I wanted to have Mark there with me through everything, the good, the bad, the hard and the easy. 5 years later having grown together through all our expirences and having the cutest little 2 year old girl and getting ready to have our 2nd, it has been the best 5 years of my life.
If I knew 5 years ago what I do now, I think I would have wanted to move the wedding date up so we could start our wonderful life together even sooner.
I have the most wonderful Husband and family, and I can't wait to see where the next 5 years takes us.

Fluffy Biscuits

So I made biscuits and gravy for lunch on Saturday, and we decided we needed a new recipe, and the one I found turned out to be and I'm not even kidding, the BEST biscuits I have ever tasted. Restaurant biscuits included.
But before I share with you the recipe I have to give you a real quick potty update. Lydia has always done things in her own way in her own time, so I decided with potty training not to push it too soon, She is after all, not even 2 yet, not for 2 more weeks. And Often Kids digress when there is a big change like a new sibling. So we I'm encouraging the potty but not pushing it. Every time she asks to go we go, and I try to suggest it as often as I can, sometimes every day, sometimes not. Anyway she asked to go potty 3 times in the last week and 2 of those times she went potty as soon as she sat down! Note, this was totally HER idea each time. So even though progress seems slow we are still trucking along and making progress and the potty is still a positive thing.
There, now that we have been talking about the bathroom are you ready to hear a new great recipe? ha ha ha

INGREDIENTS

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 3 teaspoons sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 egg
• 2/3 cup milk

DIRECTIONS

1. In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. Cut in shortening until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Beat egg with milk; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.
2. Turn onto a well-floured surface; knead 20 times. Roll to 3/4-in. thickness; cut with a floured 2-1/2-in. biscuit cutter. Place on a lightly greased baking sheet. Bake at 450 degrees F for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm.

I did it a little differently after reading the comments on the recipe. I did 1/4 c shortening (blended first into smaller pices) then 1/4 c REAL butter (blended second into slightly larger pieces) I learned the difference when baking pastry's and biscuits about using shortening and butter, but I won't go into it, just trust me the 1/2 and 1/2 sounds like more trouble then it worth, but it's not, it makes them so light and fluffy and even a little flakey.
The other thing I did different the the recipe was I kneaded it only about 5 or 6 times, I think 20 is WAY to much for biscuits, then I lightly patted it out flat and folded it on to it's self about 4 times to make the biscuits have layers, then I patted them 1 in thick and cut out the biscuits. I got 7.
1 inch was VERY think, they fluffed up more than twice the size in the oven.
If you like biscuits you GOTTA try these. SO SO SO GOOD! Best I ever had!