The details....

Okay so a lot of people have been saying to me "hey, where did these ultrasound pics come from, we didn't even know you were expecting again!"

I suppose I did sort of just throw those out there without any real explanation. We had told a lot of our friends and family personally so I just assumed that everybody that read our blog already knew.

So here's the "story." As we all know it took almost 3 years and lots of unsuccessful fertility treatments before we had a successful in-vitro fertilization that gave us our sweet Brenden. We weren't even sure it was in the stars for us to have a second child. I had approached Sean about having a second child and he said he wasn't opposed to trying, but was not ready for the money and stress that came along with doing fertility treatments. I agreed and decided I would just resume doing my acupuncture as my cycles were horrible after having Brenden. I had very delayed ovulation and very short (less than 10 days) luteal phases. All of which point to "weak follicles" which is essentially what I had before. I really didn't think I stood a chance at a natural conception. The first 2 months of acupuncture I saw mild improvements in my cycle. Acupuncture isn't a "quick fix" really, its a lot of trying things and adjusting things based on my response, which is sort of the same with fertility drugs. Well the 3rd month doing acupuncture I had a perfect day 14 ovulation. I don't think I had that ever. We actually "missed" ovulation day because I was sure I'd have a late day 20 ovulation like I had so many months before. We did however "try" the day before I ovulated. I knew that meant I stood a chance at being pregnant, but not as good as if we'd actually caught the ovulation day.

So weeks go by and I start to notice my luteal phase was going past 10 days - which was unusual. I had no signs at all that my cycle was going to start. I started also getting weak spells and the shakes a lot - a common symptom with my two previous pregnancies. I went out on a limb and decided to take a home test. I fully expected it to be negative. It wasn't! I didn't tell Sean. I waited and tested the next day and sure enough it was positive again. I finally tell Sean and he is just as stunned as I am. We follow up with the OB and its confirmed - we are pregnant.

At this point I am almost 12 weeks along an saying farewell to the first trimester. I had my 3 month OB appt. today and got to hear a nice strong heartbeat. We are definitely starting to feel more positive and excited about the pregnancy. Its just such a joy and a miracle to get to experience pregnancy again when I wasn't sure it was even possible. I feel so blessed.

My first trip to the park!

Its so crazy - 3 days ago it was 19 and 3 inches of snow on the ground (of course by the time I took the picture it had melted to about 1 inch!)

and today it was upper 60's and clear skys. I decided to take Brenden to our local park for the first time and he had SO much fun. He loved the swing and the slide. He also enjoyed just getting to watch the other kids going nuts! I'm so glad I took him!









Here is a movie of him swinging. He's very interested in the little boy swinging beside of him and I can't get him to look at the camera!

More January pictures

Our newest Pray-to-be!

Here is our first real pictures of our baby due Sept. 13. I had some light bleeding for a few weeks so they decided to do an u/s to make sure all was okay. The baby is perfectly the right size and had a nice strong heartbeat at about 170! It was such a relief to see and hear the heart finally. Its really starting to sink in that I'm actually pregnant! I'm 8wk 5d today.

I quit :(

Sadly I must say I've quit my 365 project. Its just too hard to remember to take a picture every day and to keep them organized and published on a weekly basis. I think I did a better job of posting pictures when I didn't have to be so organized about it so from now on its back to just random pictures of Brenden! I admire those that are able to keep up with their project, I just realized it required more free time and effort than I have on most days!

Long overdue birthday pics.

Here are some Pics from Brenden's birthday party. He had lots of fun!

Brenden is finally walking

Sorry the video is sideways, Blogger doesn't give u the option to rotate the video and this is how it comes off my camera.

Brenden is finally walking now. He's always been taking 2-3 steps but now he's figured out how to push himself to a standing position w/out holding onto something and last night just decided he wanted to walk all over the place. Excuse the bumpy video he was chasing me down as I was recording!