Contract is Done!

Whoot!  The title says it all!  The contract is all signed and completed.  I didn't think it would take very long at all.  Next step will be heading to PA to get all checked out by the clinic.  Last time it was all done in one day:  flight there, exam, flight back.  That was a really long day!

Hopefully we will get to spend some more time with G&M and be able to see Baby D!  I guess he's not exactly a baby any longer though, huh?  He's almost 16 months old!  We have been blessed to have received many, many pictures since he was born.  G&M are so wonderful, like family to us.  I can't wait to see them all again!

I have IT!!

I am so excited to announce that I have the contract in my hands!  I can't wait to begin this process of bringing another child into the world for G&M.  One surro friend gave birth last night.  A few more are just beginning.  Another is almost done with the first trimester.  All these ladies have been making me jealous!  :)

Timing isn't set yet.  We will have to go through the contract, which is basically the same as the first, so it should be quite fast.  This is the second time I've been so darned excited to start giving myself shots in my tummy and having Brad give me the honking ones in my butt!!  Squeeee!  Here we go!

Happy Dance!

It's been forever since I've written.  Baby D turned 1 last month.  He's so adorable with such chubby cheeks!!  He has been walking since he was 8 months old.  Little overachiever!  HA!  G&M keep in touch almost weekly with pictures, cards, emails and texts.  They are such wonderful people.  I just can't say it enough.

G sent me an email today.  She mentioned the year long wait between transfers because, if you remember, I got a new tattoo in June last year.  It takes a couple months to get started (contract & meds), so she then said we could start...like...now!  AHHH!  I'm so tickled, I almost can't concentrate here at work.  She already has a call into their attorney to ask how to get things rolling.  This seriously made my day, week, month!  So. Freakin. Excited!!!

Here's to giving Baby D a sibling in 2015!!  :)

Sibling Journey?

Yesterday afternoon I received an email and some new pics of Baby D.  Oh, chunkiness galore!!  Just as G stated, "meals are not an issue."  LOL.  He really looks like his daddy.  He's just over 4 months old now.  G made my day by telling me that the more they talk about it, they for sure want to try again...and try with US!!  I was/am so happy!  I texted Brad the news.  He thought it was great.  When I got home from work, he asked if I was able to drive home okay with being so freakin excited.  LOL, he knows me so well.  So, yes, July 2014 may be the beginnings of a sibling journey!!  Yay!

As a side note, we went shopping last weekend.  There were 3 pregnant ladies right inside the door.  I made some comment about all the prego bellies.  Brad just looked at me and jokingly said, "Really?"  Uh, you do know who you're talking to right?  LOL!  I replied, "Really?  Do you even have to question me?  Of course I'm going to be jealous of the bellies!"  :)  I just had to share!  Have a great day!

Been awhile

I haven't posted for awhile.  Lots has happened in the almost 2 months since posting.  My daughter had heart surgery the middle of June, had a complication and was placed back in the hospital for a few days.  That period of time was so crazy.  I'm so very happy to say she's recovered extremely well now, 6 weeks post surgery.  Her doc even said she can bump a volleyball a bit, according to her comfort.  She LOVES volleyball, so this made her happy!  Practice starts in just a month at school!

Baby D is growing nice and chunky!  He's so adorable.  G sends me pics/texts here and there and I'm so thankful for that.  He is almost 4 months old!!  Wow!  I had spoken with G awhile ago about the possibility of getting a new tattoo.  There is an FDA regulation that you must wait one year after a tattoo/piercing to do any embryo transfer stuff.  I asked her what their timeline was for considering taking this journey again.  If it was sooner than the one year, I wouldn't get the tattoo.  I know they have more frozen embies and she wasn't sure if they had to "use" them in a certain timeframe or not.  They checked and it was all good with her clinic to store the embies for awhile more and still have them be okay.  She said they thought spring babies were fantastic, so they would love to try again in July 2014!  They said it was okay with them if I went ahead with my tattoo.  Deep down, I really wanted to get the tattoo to help force myself to wait a year before getting prego again.  I feel great right now, so I know I would have jumped right in again.  I had wanted another tattoo, so it's not like I got it only for that reason though.  So anyway, all is well here, just slow going in the surrogacy world while we wait to see if they really do want to try again next year...talk at you all later!