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!

2 mos. post-partum

Wow, time has flown by.  It's been 2 months since Baby D was born.  I am still feeling great.  My body isn't quite back to where I want it yet, but it's still so early.  I was talking to my husband just the other day about Baby D.  It feels like it was such a long time ago, which seems strange to me.  I had a baby 2 months ago, but I feel like it's been practically a year.  That's crazy!!!  I received some of Baby D's birth announcements in the mail.  He's changed so much!  I have received numerous email pics, too.  He's so adorable, with super chubby cheeks!  They are such a cute family.  It makes my heart swell just thinking of them and the part we had in helping create that family. 

My agency called last week and mentioned they had a couple who specifically wanted a surrogate in my state.  She wasn't talking about me, but asked if I had heard of anyone throughout my journey that had said they wanted to be a surrogate.  So, hey, if any of you ladies out there near me want to be a surro, hit me up!  :)  My heart actually pitter-pattered.  I got excited all over again, thinking of G&M.  I would do it again.  I will do it again.  I just hope G&M are the ones we are matched with again!  The wait just seems like sooo long to wait though...lol.  It's a surrogate thing, don't worry.  I'm not crazy!  :)

Back to normal

I've been back to work just over a week now.  It's all good, same old, same old.  My co-workers seemed happy to have me back.  I'm getting back into the normal swing of things at work and at home.  Laundry has resumed to being backed up by several basket fulls.  LOL!  I really should do at least one load a night to get caught up...we'll see.  I want to TRY to start working out soon, as I still have 26 pounds to lose to get to my pre-prego weight.  I would like to lose more than that though.  I will just have to steer clear of the local ice cream shop that opened up again for the spring/summer.  It's not easy when I have 4 kiddos - and a husband that has stronger ice cream cravings than I do!  Well, a little here or there will be okay, right?!  Ha!

I received a pretty card in the mail yesterday from G&M.  They included some updated pics of Baby D!  He has already changed so much.  He's so stinkin cute!  It was wonderful seeing the pictures.  They gave me a warm fuzzy feeling to know he's growing and so, so loved by his parents.  :) 

There was a little note on the card that simply stated, "If you ever think of going on this roller coaster again, please keep us in mind!"  Oh. My. Gosh!! I may or may not have jumped up and down and screamed a lil bit!!  I was hoping they would like to do a sibling journey sometime in the future.  Now that they have opened the door to that idea, I got so darn excited.  My hubby just gave me a big ole smile.  He knows I would absolutely love to do another journey, especially if it was with G&M.  I know the future could change and things happen, but I hope sometime we are in the midst of giant shots in my butt and waiting on the double lines on the prego tests.  Some think I'm crazy to just utter the word "pregnant" just a month after delivering a baby.  I get excited just thinking about the possibility!  Yes, call me crazy, insane, weird, whatever you want.  Eh, maybe I am!  ;)