Sadie Mae

I'm finally getting around to sharing my birth story with the world. :)  This labor was definately different than my last one with Emma.  With Emma I went into labor on my own, and although she did have some complications I was able to deliver her the "normal" way.  The second go around I was sure that I would go into labor on my own, and I was hoping Sadie Mae would come even a little bit before my due date. I had scheduled an induction date the day after my due date just in case.  Well, nothing happened and it left me a little frustrated.  Had I known what was going to happen I would have opted to get induced at 39 weeks, but I guess we can't change the past....

So then my plan was to be induced, have Sadie sometime in the afternoon, stay the minimum 24 hours in the hospital and be discharged from the hospital the next day.  Needless to say, that didn't work out as planned either. We showed up on the 22nd at 6:30 in the morning, and everything was going smoothly at first.  Got my IV, started the Pitocin, and then started the epidural a little bit later (contractions really hurt with Pitocin, hehe).  After a little while Sadie's heart rate dropped after a contraction, which is not a good sign. So they changed my position, the least invasive thing to do. That worked for maybe five minutes. :).   My blood pressure was low too which sometimes happens after the epidural, so they decided to give me some medication to bring my blood pressure up, hoping to help with the perfusion to the baby.  That worked for a little bit as well, but Sadie's heart rate kept going down and doing weird things.  So they started to worry a little bit.  The doctor and nurses were constantly in my room, I am grateful my doctor worked just right next door so he could come and check on me often.  They tried EVERYTHING to get me to go naturally.  They usually only give the blood pressure medication once after an epidural if its low, they ended up giving it to me five or six times.  They gave me alot of fluid through my IV and gave me an amniotic infusion, which basically is just fluid for the baby.  They gave me oxygen and they were constantly changing my position.  But poor Sadie's heart rate kept doing crazy things.  Every time they checked me and touched her head her heart rate would go all over the place. And her head wasn't coming down like it should.The other problem was that I wasn't dilating fast enough.  So they tried to increase my pitocin higher than what they normally give anyone, but that only made Sadie's heart rate do even more crazy stuff to where they eventually had to turn it off.  They had told me when they started to have problems that if they didn't resolve I would have to have a c-section so it was in the back of my mind, but I kept thinking it would just work itself out.  When they had to turn the pitocin off, meaning I wasn't going to have regular contractions, I knew I had reached the end of the line.  My doctor and nurse stood in my room for like ten minutes just looking at my screen.  We finally decided to do what was best for Sadie.  As soon as we made the decision, Sadie came into the world literally less than twenty minutes later, at 6:18 pm. She weighed 7lbs 12 ounces, and was 20.5 inches long.  I didn't even have time to really think about it.  I didn't say any crazy things that I recall but I know I was way out of it.  I remember they handed me Sadie once I was back in my room, and I remember thinking I had zero energy to even hold her let alone try and breastfeed her.  But I felt better as the medication wore off.  I know we did what was best, but it was still a little hard to deal with the change in events.  It all worked out though because Sadie is healthy and not to mention beautiful.  She sleeps great, eats great, and we are so happy to have her in our lives. 

Emma first had a little freak out in the hospital.  She wanted nothing to do with me, in fact she was scared of me.  I just don't think she liked seeing me in that condition in a hospital bed, she hated the hospital bed.  She didn't really know what to think about Sadie either.  She held her because we wanted her to, and she would kiss her because we asked her to.  All that pretty much changed too.  Now I'm constantly telling her all day long to leave the baby alone.  She is constatly trying to touch her, hold her, pick her up, poke her in the eye, etc.  The list goes on and on.  She does love her though which I guess is a good thing.  I do have to watch her like a hawk.

I actually recovered better with this one than I did with Emma surprisingly.  I feel great right now and am adjusting pretty good to two kids although it is a bit of an adjustment.  I am so lucky though to have two healthy beautiful daughters.  I love them both so much. Chance is a great little daddy and I'm so lucky to have him too. I am so very blessed to have such a great family.  Thanks to everyone who watched Emma while I was in the hospital and recovering.  That was a huge blessing!

Well, here are the pictures:

One of Sadie's first glamour shots..

They took a little picture before they shipped her off to the nursery

I don't think that picture describes how tired I was at that moment. :)  We couldn't get a family picture then because Emma refused to get near me, so this one had to do.

Mommy and daughter..

Emma with "baby sisters" as she calls her.  She kind of looks like she doesn't know exactly what to do with her.

We finally got a family picture the next day

Sadie when we finnally got to go home...

I love my daughters!

We went to Scolefield when Sadie was about a week and a half.  Here's our family right after church. 

Thanks Val for taking some awesome newborn pictures, she sure made Sadie look beautiful. 

My crazy two year old

I'm finally getting around to posting about my little Emma.  Can't believe two years have gone by since I held her in my arms for the first time.  Emma is at such a fun age and she keeps growing and learning so much every day.  Besides the attitude at times and her favorite word being "no", she is so much fun and the light of our lives.  Her energy is a little much at times, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

I'm horrible with pictures but this is one of the pics I took on her birthday.

We went to Seven Peaks to celebrate the big day. Chance's mom, dad, sister and my brother Jeremy and his family came to celebrate with us!

Emma LOVES to try on multiple sets of clothing. She wants to put on her own  clothes and refuses help when I try to offer it.  She is so independent its almost not good sometimes....

This is her birthday present from Grandma Ras.  We call it "pinky".  She loves riding it all over the place.  it took her a while to get the steering down, but now she has mastered it.

Emma loves to ride horses, whether its this mini Jasper or riding with daddy.  But being as crazy as she is, she is really calm when you stick her on a horse. 

We got her a swimming pool for her birthday, its just her size and she loves it.  She has turned into quite the water girl.  At Seven Peaks she will dunk herself under the water over and over again you have to watch her and make sure she doesn't drown.  And she has no fear of the water slides, esspecially the little kid ones, she goes down them multiple times.

One of her favorite things is her cowgirl hat.  She wants to take it everywhere.  She truly is a little cowgirl.

Other things she loves:

She loves to color.  She knows most of her colors.

She loves taking herself to the bathroom at random times, but doesn't want to do it consistently.  We tried potty training her for a month and then gave up for a little bit (mommy was exhuasted and frustrated), but she is so much better at communicating now hopefully we can get her potty trained soon.

She loves her cousins. She would rather be with them over me anyday.

She loves hot dogs, she would have one for every meal if I let her. 

She knows so many words, but she still loves to jabber.  I have to just pretend I know what she is talking about.  She is so cute.

She loves running away from her mother at all the wrong times. :)

She loves to pray.  She always says the prayer for breakfast and sometimes lunch.   One Sunday we were waiting for Chance to have an interview for his temple recommend and the chapel was empty.  She ran up to the pulpit and started saying "Heavenly Father, thank you for this day".  It was one of those moments that made you realize that maybe you are doing something right. 

Emma, we love you so much and are so grateful to have you in our lives!!!



Swazies

Its been ages since I have updated my blog, I don't even know if I remember everything I have done since March! For starters.. we went to the Swazie mountains in April.  This trip usually kicks off our summer and all its craziness.  The Swazies is pretty much in the middle of nowhere but thet whole point of the trip is to find where the wild horses are.  We camp and ride horses and go on four wheeler rides and play in the dirt (esspecially if you are Emma).  This year I didn't do much riding since I was pregnant and all so I mostly stayed back and watched the kids.  Emma LOVED the four wheeler and wanted to be on it constantly.  When it wasn't running she would just climb on it and pretend to ride it.  She also went on some short horse rides with daddy and she loved that as well.  She is so calm on the horse which is so nice cuz usually she can't contain her energy.  The weather was perfect.  Last year we might as well have camped in a river it rained so much but this year the sun was out every day and it was not too hot but not too cold. 

Emma at the start of our trip..

Emma and her cousin Hawkin.  They are best buds, they almost look like they could pass for twins....

Emma riding with daddy

Going for a short horsie ride...

All the grandkids crammed on the four wheeler with grandpa

Emma going for her own little stroll, its a good thing she didn't learn how to turn it on

Did I mention that Emma really was great at getting dirty...I couldn't wait for bath time every night. :)

For the most part we had a great time and we can't wait to go next year!

Moab

For Spring Break for UVU we got the chance to go to Moab with some of our great friends the Brandons and the Davies!  It was a ton of fun.  I had never been before so it was fun to see all of red rock and scenery.  Our only downfall was the weather was not the greatest.  When it said "windy" on the forecast we had no idea it would be WINDY, like,  up to 65 miles per hour kind of winds.  It really wasn't too cold and it didn't rain until we were on our way home.  But wind and sand from the desert do not make a good combo. :)  Esspecially when you are trying to cook outside.  It reminded me of the sand storms you get in Lake Powell, except it was all day long.  And the house trailer we slept in felt like it was giong to blow over at night, so we didn't sleep very well.  And poor Dustin and Becca Davies attempted the tent for one night but then got smart the next night and slept in a motel. :) But it was fun to spend with good friends and there was a ton of stuff to see! Here are some pics:

Chance's sister Summer let us borrow this backpack.  It was so nice to have! Emma for the most part enjoyed it until she had been it in a while and then she wanted out.  But she was a good sport through the whole trip.

The first day we went and saw the delicate arch.  It was pretty cool.  It was the nicest day by far it was pretty hot so the wind felt good. :)

This is us and the Brandons, some kind soul took a picture of all of us.

We went down and stood under the arch...

The second day we went to this place, called Dead Horse Point. I believe they call it Dead Horse Point because they use to herd these horses to the top of this place.  I guess some of them got really thirsty and saw the water at the bottom and jumped to go get it, at least that is what I understood from it. Its only half as deep as the Grand Canyon, but it was still so pretty and cool to see.

Emma wanted to pose for the camera too...

We took a break for lunch in the truck cuz it was so windy outside.  Dustin and Becca joined us for this day, and that is there little boy Porter, who apparently is Emma's boyfriend.  As soon as he sat down by him she grabbed his hand.  She didn't waste any time. :)

We went on a hike that afternoon to see the Landscape Arch, and Emma could not resist again, so cute. If they get married this will be on their wedding video. :)

This is the Landscape Arch, it was pretty cool to see and it was a really pretty hike.

 Emma loved the sand and loved when she could roam free.

Back at camp before the wind got too bad Emma was able to play with some sand toys, thanks Dustin and Becca for bringing them!

More craftiness...

So I have not been the best at my New Years Resolution.  I have not taken a picture every day ( although my camera broke and I just got a new one so hopefully that will give me a little more motivation) and I have not blogged 3 posts a month, although I have done alot this month so maybe it will make up for last month. :) But I have been pretty good at the craft stuff.  Here is what I did this month.

Us Rasmussen girls got together and made this...

  And this, sorry I should have taken it out of the glare from the blinds, but you get the point.

And Chance's sister helped me make this awesome jewlery holder.  It is so nice not to have all of my jewlery tangled and always losing one earing.  This sorts it out just nice and keeps everything organized.  Thanks Afton for your help! It turned out great.

Its a girl! At least I'm pretty sure. :)

So sometimes it pays to work at a hospital that has an ultrasound machine.  I was working at Orem Community Hospital and we played on the ultrasound machine.  It was a pretty decent machine and you could see pretty clear.  The first time it was being stubborn but we didn't see any boy parts.  The second time we looked she decided not to be shy and gave us a clear bum shot.  Although it is hard to see in the picture that they took, you could even see those three little white lines, clearly identifying herself as a girl.  My 20 week ultrasound is on April 2nd so we can find out 100 percent, but we are pretty darn sure.  I'm excited.  Emma will have a nice little friend to play with and I won't have to buy a ton of stuff! Thank goodness.  I never thought I would have girls first knowing my family and how many boys are in it, but I LOVE girls and I am excited for another one.  Oh, and her name will be Sadie Mae Rasmussen.  Sadie is another form of Sarah so it will kind of be like we are naming her after me.  And Mae I just liked and thought they went well together.  Yeah for girls!

Baby #2

So practically everyone knows but I have not even blogged about being pregnant. Whoops! Here is out little peanut at 8 weeks, its not much to look at but its still something...

This second go around was a little harder in the begining than Emma was. I don't know why since I didn't even throw up that much, I definately threw up more with Emma.  But I did feel like crap all day long for about three or four weeks, and trying to take care of another child took its toll on me.  But, I'm so happy to say that I'm feel so much better and have lots of more energy.  Thank goodness! I thought the crappy stage would never end.

I"m a little nervous to have two kids, probably mostly because I will still have to work two nights a week until Chance is done with school, but I know it will all work out.  I have amazing family that is always willing to watch Emma while I sleep.  So bring on number 2!

So I'm 17 weeks now,  I go to the doctor tommorrow and then I will set up my the big 20 week appointment.  I have tried to call ultrasound in the hospital this weekend to see maybe if they could find out for me, but she was just going home so she couldn't do it.  Maybe I will try this week agian, so stay posted!

Growing up...sigh...

Miss Emma Loo Hoo is growing up so fast.  I know I say that all the time but she never decides to stop growing...Here are some things that she loves...

She loves going outside, lately she has been having some melt downs when she has to come back inside. Her whole world literally falls apart. Poor thing.  Her new favorite word is "Go" She will come up to you and grab you by the hand when and say "Go" when she wants to go somewhere (which is mainly outside).  Sometimes I wish she had never learned that word.  Esspecially when I still want to sleep and she comes in my room in the morning and demands that I get out of bed. :)

She loves her baths, she likes to lay down so the water is almost covering her face, its almost a little scary...she will definately love this summer being outside and playing in the water!

 Unfortunately for me, she loves the toilet, she knows how to sit on it but is not quite sure what to do once she is on it.  She pulls down her pants sometimes, but most of the time she just climbs on it like the picture below...

She loves to play with my Q-tips...at least she knows what they are for right? :)

She loves her shoes! When you ask her to go get her shoes she will always pick out her cowgirl boots.  She will put them on in her diaper or just a onesie, she always seems to have them on no matter where she goes...

We love our little girl.  Life would be so dull without her. :)  She is learning words so fast....just to name a few she now says "blankie" although it sounds like "babee", "juice" although juice means any kind of drink so I  never know what kind of drink she wants..., "towel" she says this when she is ready to get out of the tub, "bite" she says that when she wants a bit of my food, "pee-u", I'm trying to teach her how to tell me when she has pooped, and she now has combined "bye" and "love you" so now when she tells someone goodbye she says "bye you" which means bye bye and I love you, just so you know. :) She is also very good at blowing kisses, she will blow one to anyone, including random people like the lady that stands at the door at Costco when you leave.. She says alot more but my mind forgets :) She still jabbers all the time though like we should know what she is saying.

She also loves to feed herself, she hardly ever lets me help anymore.  She is definately independent.  She could care less where I am half the time, esspecially when she is outside, she will leave me in a heartbeat to go exploring.  Its kind of scary sometimes but I haven't lost her yet!  She still loves to climb, she is always trying new things.  She now loves to climb the bunk beds at Grandma and Grandpa Ras' house, which is always a challenge since the bunk bed is in the toy room.  I never feel like I can just leave her to play.

She does not like:

When I bring her in from outside

When she has to be strapped in the carseat

Sitting still in church

Sometimes she does not like to take naps, its always when I'm tired too and would love to have a nap too

But for the most part, she is very happy child.  We love her to death! But stop growing up Emma!



Jury Duty

So a couple of weeks ago I got a letter in the mail summoning me to jury duty.  I wasn't too excited about it since it was on my week off and it was supposed to be a three day trial.  So last Tues morning I had to wait through the selection process which went pretty much all morning....I was number 14 out of 36 people.  They started taking everyone back and interviewing them personally which was taking FOREVER, and I didn't bring a book or anything so I was extremely bored.  It would have taken to late afternoon  to interview everyone but they interviewed me and about five other people and then they came back to tell us who they had selected.  I thought for sure they wouldn't pick me....but lo and behold I was one of the "lucky" ones.  My family joked that I should tell them I was racist or saw dead people or something, but we all were sworn in so I had to tell the truth dang it. :) All in all, it was actually a good experience for me.  I felt pretty cool when they said, "All arise for the jury" whenever we walked in the room.  So basically this girl was trying to sue her former friend from high school for an accident she felt was all his fault.  it happened five and a half years ago, so a long time, but what happened was she got on the back of his Jeep and he said he didn't know she was there, and then she fell off and hit her head and suffered head trauma and has memory problems today as well as losing her sense of taste and smell.  She tried to say he was negligent in his driving because he had his music loud and didn't check his rear view mirror even when he was driving forward.  In order for her to win the 1.1 million dollars that they were asking for, or even any money at all, it had to be what we felt as a jury more than 50% his fault.  The whole time through the trial I kept asking myself what the heck she was doing on the back of his Jeep with nothing to hold on to. And she didn't remember anything about the accident so of course she didn't know why she got on. It took between 6 to 8 seconds by the video they had to even drive out of the parking space in front of him, so she had plenty of time to get off.   Needless to say, she did not get any money.  We all felt bad as a jury that she had to go through so much, but it was kind of her fault for making that decision.  Anyways, it was pretty cool to be a part of it all, even if I did have to be away from Emma for two whole days.  I would do it again, if I had to, but hopefully it won't be for a long long while.

Valentines Day Craft

So I did my craftiness for the month..Chance's mom actually bought everything for us to make these cute little crafts!  Basically we rolled these felt strips into these roses and just hot glue guned them on a heart shaped wood piece that Chance's dad cut out...it turned out pretty darn cute and its perfect cuz I have zero Valentines decorations....but I do now!  We had fun making these and even the boys helped us out which is unusual but nice.  Happy Valentines Day!

Future Rock Climber

So the picture was just taken for fun, Emma was trying on my socks....funny girl.  But I seriously think Emma is going to be a rock climber when she grows up....

A little while ago I laid her down for a nap, she slept and then an hour or so later I heard her playing with her toys...yes she has officially at 18 months learned to climb out of her crib.  Before that she had been climbing out of her pack and play when she was at other people's houses.  Then to make matters worse, I tried to lay her down for a nap about a week ago, and then as I was trying to take down Christmas decorations, a couple of minutes later she was in my living room.  I thought that I maybe didn't shut the door or something, but I tried again and made sure I shut the door, within a minute she was in my living room again! The little stinker can now open doors! I am in big trouble!

Needless to say she tries to climb everything...if she hasn't climbed it before she will try to conquer new heights, literally.  And she is quick too.  On Tues. I checked on her and she was in her room, then not too long after that I needed to go somewhere so I went to go find her and she was in her bathroom on the counter.  Her toothbrush and toothpaste are in the drawer closest to the door, and she pulled out the drawer to get her toothbrush (she loves playing with her toothbrush).  So needless to say I go to open the door and I can't because the drawer is open and it will only open a crack.  I tried to explain to her to get down and close the drawer but she just sat there and laughed at me.  I think she knew she had locked me out and was rather enjoying it.  Then as I was trying with a hanger to get the drawer shut, she decided that the hand soap was shampoo and "washed' her hair over and over again.  I guess at least she wants to be clean right?  Finally between me and Chance we got the door open at last.  Now a child lock in on the door handle to the bathroom.  :) I didn't think I would have problems like these so early, I don't know what I am going to do with that child. I guess I will just have to love her. :)

Christmas and New Years Resolutions....

Christmas was very good at our home. For those of you that were wondering how the kitchen set turned out here is the final product:

I thought it turned out pretty good, esspecially due to my lack of craftiness.  I am so lucky to have a husband that is good with tools and making things though, he is the one that cut the doors to the microwave and stove and made the hole for the sink.  Emma loved it, she is always playing with the pots and pans.  she does always try to climb in the oven, I don't know if she fully realizes what everything is, but when she is old enough to understand I'm sure she will still love it.  She did roll up her sleeves to wash her hands in the sink though.  :)

I didn't take a lot of pictures on Christmas Day, which is why I have a New Years Resolution to take more pictures....but we all got spoiled for Christmas.  Emma got so much toys and clothes I don't think she knew what to do with them all.  We even hid some and will bring them out for her later so then she will think she has a new toy.  But mostly we loved spending Christmas with family and friends. 

So as far as the New Years goes I have made a few goals....

1. Take a picture everyday, thanks Val for inspiring me.  I couldn't find my camera until yesterday, so I'm off to a late start, but better late then never right?

2.  Blog at least three posts a month....I'm a blog slacker sometimes....

3.  Do one new craft idea a month.

I don't want to make too many goals because I might not achieve them all, but I love working on new things and trying to improve myself.  Hopefully I won't look back at the end of the year and be dissapointed!