There's been a development!

Guess what?!
I have a semi good excuse for not posting for.. heh.. a really long time! And she's in that picture right there ;)

Last post, I mentioned putting off the attempt for a baby. Well, two weeks after that, my OB/GYN was seeing me for my annual and asked if we might be interested in trying an IUI. Well, after some discussion with my dear husband, we did it. During that month I took some medicine to help my body do what it's supposed to do when producing eggs and getting ready for pregnancy. The Friday after Thanksgiving I had an ultrasound to make sure my follicles (contain the eggs) were looking good and reacted well to the meds. You don't want to have too few or too many! I had one great one and one smallish one, which was great news. I had a shot to induce ovulation and then Saturday morning.. IUI. That began a very long 2 week wait.

December 14th I had been feeling tired and achy for a few days. I suspected something was up, but after having my hopes up every month for years, I didn't really expect anything. I took a test that afternoon and had a very faint positive!! Over the days that followed I had blood tests and ultrasounds to make sure that it was in fact a viable pregnancy. And it was! I got to see her little heartbeat when I was barely over 6 weeks pregnant. I didn't even know you could do that! Exactly 8 months after that first positive test, on August 14th 2009, I gave birth via c-section to a 6lb 15oz baby girl!

Today she is a happy, healthy, beautiful, 7 month old! She loves to keep her mommy up all night long and also adores her daddy and big brother.

God has blessed my husband and me with this little daughter of ours. Sometimes I'm thankful that I had to go through what I did to have her. As hard as it was, it makes me all the more grateful for all those sleepless nights. I wouldn't wish this roller coaster called infertility on even the worst person, but I came out on the other side with a fabulous prize. My daughter.

November already!

It's that time of year again when we start planning for the holidays and Mike finds some new hobby, this year it is trains. We built a table for his train today and he has been having fun putting it together. He has the wires all under the table so the top looks nice and neat.

James is growing like a weed. We keep buying him clothes and shoes, but they don't last long. I bought him shoes about six weeks ago, they're already too small, and I bought them at least a size too big! I keep telling him we're going to stop feeding him. He just laughs.

We decided to start homeschooling James last year, I think sometime in March. I know he's enjoying getting to be with mom all the time, but he really misses having kids to play with. So we've been participating in several activities that are made for homeschoolers. He loves them, especially the Pokemon group!

I'm still alive. Busy like crazy all the time- between the gym, homeschool, being a housewife, I've been run pretty hard. No luck in the baby dept. We have put it off for a little while. Everybody tells us "if you stop trying, it'll happen", I'm not sure how that works considering you have to try at least a little to get something like that to happen. Maybe next time.

Queen of the House

Well, let's see. It's been a few months since I did anything with my blog. The one person who reads it has probably forgotten all about me ;).

I started personal training at the gym recently, haven't done much yet though. I'm sure that'll change once my trainer is no longer too sick to stay on me! I'm supposed to be keeping up with how much I eat. I do ok at that, but some days I eat too much, and ironically some days too little, so if you go by a whole week, it evens out. I'm not sure how to change what I'm doing, my hormones are always so screwed up because of that Clomid I've been taking. Sometimes I get really bloated and blue, and it messes with my appetite. So I pretty much feel hungry all the time now. Maybe the training will help, doesn't seem to be doing much so far. Shh, don't tell her, cause she'll kill me next week!

My hubby has decided to take some college classes. Right now he's taking calculus. He's doing quite well, not that I expected any different from him. He's very smart, and figures things out pretty quickly. I have problems with that type of thing because I don't have much patience for learning things. Never have. It's amazing to me that he can sit there and figure that stuff out, and remember it! I'm pretty good at math, but sometimes I just get lost. I have a terrible memory. Sometimes I get so jealous that he remembers things so well.

James got a compliment today from a guy at the Micro center, he told him he was a pretty smart kid. You should have seen that head swell. He decided to start telling me all about Mali and Timbuktu. "Did you know that mom?" No! He's got detention for fighting with some boy in his class. He says the other boy was pinching him, so he hit him in the stomach. I didn't say much, I'm sure if some kid was doing that to me, I'd punch them too. He's had a pretty rough week. Then he brought home multiplication problems for homework. He's ok with them going 4x4=__ , but when they say 4x__=16, he has issues, which I understand, he just has other things he'd rather be doing! Not thinking about math all evening.

That leaves the cat and fish to tell you about, the cat is the queen of the house as usual. She drinks out of my glass and stands on my keyboard while I'm working on things. She never does that when I'm just reading fark. She waits until I'm doing the taxes or some other such fun thing. I put her down, she gets back up, and sticks her butt in my face, darned cat! The fish are good too, we find that they really like attention from those giants outside the tank. Our algae eater died, so we had to get a new one, it seems to have settled in nicely, and is prettier than the old one, poor guy.

That's about it from here. I wish we had more exciting news, maybe soon!

I've got quite a few friends who recently had babies or currently have a bun in the oven, to all of you, (you know who you are) please let me babysit!!!

Julie

The best comeback ever!

If you know me, you probably know my son as well. James is a great kid with a good (and slightly mischievous) heart. He has a diagnosis of ADHD, and for those of you who don't believe in ADHD, I would like you to meet my child. You will no longer feel this way.

This kiddo has had trouble academically his entire (short) life. I suspect he'll always have some problems. But, I have now found out, that he can try and succeed if given the proper attention, teachers, encouragement, etc. The teachers at his school wanted to hold him back last year. He wasn't ready for the second grade. His reading was very far behind. I chose to send him on. I didn't want him to be held back. I now know I did the right thing.

James' teacher sent home a note a few days ago saying he had tested exactly where he was supposed to. That might not sound so exciting, but he started out second grade with a DRA level 4. He ended with a 28! The note started out exactly how I felt, "What a wonderful miraculous day"!

The middle column here is the DRA levels. Notice what grade is level 4, and how far down 28 is. It's huge! I hope that everyone who reads this, sends him a note to let him know how proud you are of this huge accomplishment.

Since we're in a new house now, (yay!) you might want to get our new address for that note;)

love you all!