New Stroller

This is the best stroller ever. Its a sit and stand, but it has a seat for Dylann, that we can take out when she wants to stand. Its nice b/c she is still to young to just stand the whole time we are out. I am so excited about this stroller. Dylann is a little excited about it too. Last night she sat in the stroller for 2 hours, just hanging out. This morning she did the same thing. We watched a movie and she sat in it the whole time, pointing to the seat in front saying "baby seat, baby seat here" She is still asking to get in the stroller. We finally put it away till the baby comes.

33 weeks and project life

I am so excited, I just got my Project Life in the mail yesterday. It was one of my Christmas present from Danny this year. This thing is so great. It has everything you need to make your own scrapbook, without having to buy all this extra stuff. If you still don't know what I am talking about, go to beckyhiggins.com. You take a picture a day, that way you can keep track of whats going on for the whole year. You can do it how ever you want there are lots of ideas on there. It is so cool

Also I am 33 weeks. I can't believe it that longest I have been prego, and going strong.

Playing with Daddy

Since I have been on bed rest, my husband has totally stepped it up! He is so amazing, He cooks dinner every night instead of having me cook. Well Dylann wants all of his attention when he comes home from work. She always whats to climb all of him and make him play even though he is busy doing so many different thing. Well She likes to look up the bottom of his shirt and have him look down, like a little tunnel. Of course she is dressed up alike a princess. (we can't get cloths off her)

Danny thought it would be funny to tuck her in his shirt. She loved it. She didn't want to get out, This is one of my new favorite pictures.

Christmas Morning

It is a tradition of ours to always take a picture of the kids waiting on the stairs to come down to open presents. Dylann had other plans, she did not want to wait. So this is our picture for this year of Dylann ''waiting'' to come down Christmas Morning.Opening presents, its a dress. Getting ready to open princess shoes, that we got from the dollar store, well they broke that day. I guess we need to fork out a little more money to get some better ones. They were cheap shoes, but she was really happy, and that's what matters. One of her favorites, its Tinker Bell,This video is of Dylann, we are trying to get her really excited, we think she was so over whelmed, that she didn't really know how to act.

Later at my sister, Margos house. We had a big lunch and lots of food, and of course more presents. Margo got a massager for her husband, and lets just say the girls used it a lot more then my brother in law did. Taking turns, it was so funny. Dylann got the Snow White outfit from her nana Manookin, She had to where it all day, and there was no other way around it. She loves to be a princess.We had such a wonderful Christmas this year. We were sad that we couldn't spend it in Utah with our family out there, since it is there year this year. We really did miss our Utah family, but are greatful that we have family here in Ohio, since we are not aloud to travel. We are so grateful for all of our family, and all the wonderful things they do for us. Dylann had a wonderful Christmas, she got a little too spoiled. She now everyday wants to open more presents. She wraps all her toys in blankest, or wipes to give people presents. Then she wants you to wrap it back up and then give it back to her.

We are glad that Christmas is hear and gone. We love the celebrations, but now we are getting geared up for the next big event coming up in February. Lets just hope that we can go at least 6 more weeks.

31 Weeks

So it is official, 31 weeks is not the best week of good news for me and being pregnant. When I was pregnant with Dylann at 31 weeks, the doctors made me go straight to the hospital. I had to stay there for a week and then I had Dylann at 32 weeks, she was 3lbs. 13oz. I had toxemia, where your body decides that it doesn't like the baby and tries to fight it off. Well of course the baby always wins, so it starts to hurt the mothers body.

Well I just went to the doctors, just for a check up. Well my blood pressure is up! (its one of the many signs of toxemia). They worry about high blood pressure for a couple of reasons. Like toxemia for one, and also after awhile of having high blood pressure, the placenta could start to deteriorate. They took a lot of other test and came up with some things that I have to do now.

1.take blood pressure meds

2.6 hours of bed rest a day on my side (i don't have to do it all at once)

3.come in 2 times a week for a 'non' stress test

4.lots of blood, and urine testing

5.weight checks

At first it was a lot to take in, b/c I feel great. I feel like I can do what ever I wanted right now. I have tons of energy, and am really ready to party with the family for Christmas. At first I was really mad, like 'why is this happening?'. Well I can't answer that one question, but what I can answer is that I am so grateful that it is this and not what happened last time.

I can be home with my little girl.

I can still move around half of the time.

I am not 'sick' yet.

Things could be worse, I could have toxemia right now and be in the hospital for Christmas. I could be having a baby right now. (we are totally not ready, and very unhealthy for the baby). So all I can do is do what the doctor says to do. Dylann gets to watch a movie everyday now, and I get to read all the time. And hey I wont have to do as much cleaning as I would normally. (it could be a good thing or a bad thing).

I am so so grateful, and count my many blessings everyday. Thank you for all your support.

Little prayers,

This just happened, and I thought it was so sweet and so funny. I had to blog about it right away. We just ate dinner, and for some reason Dylann always wants to eat just the salad and non of the real food. We have been trying to get her to eat all her dinner so she knows that she needs to eat everything. (even the things she doesn't like)

We were trying to bribe her with a cookie to eat the rest of her food. She still didn't want to eat anything but salad, which she already finished. She still wanted a cookie without eating the rest of her dinner. Well long story short she didn't eat her dinner so we didn't give her a cookie, I know we are such mean parents.

Well I just put her to bed and she was still crying about not getting a cookie. I was trying to calm her down so we can say her prayer. This is what happened.

mommy-dear Heavenly Father

Dylann-Heavenly Father

mommy-thank you for this day

Dylann-thank you day

mommy- please bless mommy

Dylann-please Dylann

mommy-please bless Dylann

Dylann-please Dylann,

please Dylann,

please daddy

mommy-please bless Daddy

Dylann-please Dylann cookie

(mommy trying not to laugh)

Dylann-please Dylann cookie mommy?

(crying)

mommy-and we say these things

Dylann-please Dylann cookie

mommy-and we say these things

Dylann-Jesus Christ amen, mommy cookie please.

I know I am so mean but I still didn't give her a cookie after all of that.

Baking with Mommy!

So I have been really craving cookies lately. My aunt gave me the best cookie recipe that makes a ton of cookies. We were done with all of our Sunday activitys early, like church, and eating with my family. I thought it would be a great idea to bake with Dylann. She always sees her cousins' cooking with there mom so she has really wanted to cook with me. It was very stressful, messy, and the most fun I have had cooking in a long time. She doesn't get that its ok to get messy, and that your hands are going to get slimy (when you don't have an amazing kitchen aid, and only a hand mixer that doesn't work very good). All and all she had so much fun, and they turned out wonderful. trying to fix the hand mixer fixing the hand mixer again giving up on the hand mixer and using our hands instead, she doesn't really like to get her hands dirty. She would put her hands in the cookie dough and then take them out and wipe them off. I was trying to teach her how to roll the cookies, instead she would grab some and throw it on the pan. her master peace.I am glad that I decided it was ok and didn't stress out, that there was going to be a big mess and that she needed a bath afterwards. I knew that Danny was going to clean up after. I was able to enjoy my little Dylann with all her sillyness.