First experience apple picking in pictures

Uncle Jim

This is his normal behavior

Valery and Cass

Wagon ride to go apple picking

Searching for apples

Tasting her find

Egg Retrival and Fertiliztion Report

Retrieval day.....

We woke up at 4:45am as we had to be out the door by 5:30.   Cassie decided she would get up at 5:15 also.   She was ready for Grandma to come over and play with her while we went to the doctor. 

We got there at 6:30 and they gave me a Valium, a gown, hat and booties and got an IV started.  I didn't care for the way the Valium made me feel...kinda like your drunk.  Things were pretty fuzzy.

At 7:30 they had me walk to the procedure room.  I layed down right away and they had me get my feet in some heavy duty stir-ups, put some oxygen on me and that's pretty much all I remember.   Next thing I know I am waking up horribly nauseous.  They had given me zofran in my IV but it didn't do the trick.  I also felt like I was burning up and asked for a cold wash cloth to wipe my face with.  And then...what I didn't want to happen...I puked....more than once.   Ack.    Instead of staying in recovery for the usually hour I was there for 2 1/2 hours.   I slept a lot...and puked.  Nice.   I could have stayed longer but decided I just needed to get home in bed.   It is a HORRIBLE feeling to be sick to your stomach, dizzy and have to be put in a wheel chair and pushed thru a hospital, down an elevator and put in a moving vehicle.  I kept my puke bag and slept the whole way home.  Walked in the door and said "I need to lay down".  I went to bed and Cassie brought me one of her stuffed animals to sleep with.  I slept for an hour, woke up, had some Culver's chicken and felt SO MUCH better.  I layed on the couch for the rest of the day and went to bed at 7:30.

And now on to the important stuff....

They retrieved 12 eggs
9 of the eggs were mature
8 of the eggs fertilized

Now it is just a waiting game to see how our embabies do.   The doctor will call me on Saturday to give me an update on them and Monday is Transfer Day!!

Future singer??

Our pediatrician is also a singer, he sings opera.   He told me he is very curious about her voice.   He told me all singers always work to control their soft palate and because of Cassie's Pierre Robin she has a very high arch to her soft palate so she wouldn't need a lot of work in controlling it. She also has a high pitch to her voice.  He said he is very interested to watch her as she grows and that she may have a beautiful singing voice as a result of her palate.   Hmmmmm.......something I have never thought about.  Cassie may be your next American Idol! :o)

Our smarty pants

Today was Cassie's 3 year check up.

She is a heavy weight at 26 lbs; 12 ounces.

Her doctor asked her tons of questions including having her count, say the alphabet, talk about colors, about strangers, etc...He really took a lot of time with her.  He finally looked at me and said "I think she is one of my smartest patients".   That was so awesome to hear.  Of course we think she is smart but to hear her doctor tell us that made me so proud.  

On Friday at my check up we had my doctors partner do my u/s.  He is from Germany.  Cassie counted to 10 for him in German.   He was very impressed and asked if she learned that in school....nope, it is Daddy teaching her.  She also knows how to count to 10 in Spanish.

She is also starting to read.  She knows all the sounds the letters make , we make words on the fridge with the letter magnets and she is sounding them out.  I told our children's librarian this and she thought it was amazing.  She asked if she learned it in school and I told her I taught her.  She asked if I had a teaching degree.....nope. This homeschooling thing is working! :o)

So proud of her!!  

Ready to Trigger!!

I went in today and have a total of 17 follies with 10 being a good size.   Our doctor said "You are definitely triggering tonight"  So tonight at 9:30 I trigger and Wednesday is retrieval.  

I'm sure  know that I will be heading to the clinic on Wednesday with knots in my stomach.  I am not a fan of being put under.  I will need that valium right when I walk in the door to calm my nerves!!!

After 7 days of stimming....update

Cass and I went to my doctor today.  I now have 13 follies with an E2 level of 600.   I have some small follies and my largest is at 13 so my doc thought a couple more days of growth, come in on Sunday to be checked and I may trigger on Monday.   Its interesting to compare this cycle to my last cycle. 

Last cycle at this time I had 8 follies and my E2 was 222.  So my numbers are much better this time around.

 

Words from a childs mouth

Cassie and I were just talking about babies.   She asked if we had diapers and I said "No, but we will buy diapers if God decides to give us another baby".  She said:

"If God says No, we buy a cat"
 "If God says Yes, we buy a baby"

Oh my gosh...too funny.