15 weeks! (and other miscellany)

And we're going from lemons to apples and oranges! :)  I can not wait to see the babies again on Tuesday, I'm just dying of anticipation over here.  Then it's another long wait until our anatomy scan in late August, but it will be our last four week wait, as then we are onto OB appts. every other week after 20.  Yay!

Otherwise, our huge milestone is tonight is my very last PIO shot (hopefully forever).  I will not miss these.  The individual shots themselves are not really that bad (or not nearly as bad as I envisioned when I saw the huge needles), but cumulatively over three whole months (!), they do some serious damage to your backside.  

And with all the bruises, we are having more bleeders lately.  DH always does the shots, unless he is not around, and the other night after drawing back, doing the shot, holding the alcohol swab over the site for awhile, and applying the band-aid as he always does, we went on our merry way like we do every night.  It wasn't until later when we were in bed that I rolled over and he could see that I had actually bled through the band-aid and had a huge blood stain on the back of my panties.  Lovely.  So after tonight we'll be done with all hormone replacement, and only on baby aspirin for another five weeks. 

I think we had a growth spurt last night.  I got really tired and uncomfortable during dinner and then passed out on the couch for an hour and a half.  I woke up and was noticeably bigger.  Very weird and very cool.

I'm up about eight pounds from when we started and looking forward to packing on many more. :)

I haven't been sleeping very well. I'm up in the middle of the night and lay around like I have somewhere else to go.  Though I am eternally grateful we have another master (our main guest room) on the first floor of our house, as with this heat the upstairs and our bedroom can get quite warm.  If I had to sleep up there all the time, I just wouldn't be sleeping at all.  I am also so so happy that our subdivision has a wonderful outdoor (and partially shaded) pool for when sitting in the A/C just isn't enough.  I'm running so hot lately, that the pool feels just amazing.

Speaking of water relief, I'm dying for some ocean time.  We are planning to head out to NYC to visit my sister in August and spend some time in the Hamptons, in lieu of the Cape and Islands this year.  So of course I just got an unexpected invitation to a party on Nantucket (and directly on the ocean) in August.  I'm not gonna lie, I looked into buying a ticket to go.  But hopefully the lovely Jay's of Hallowell Lane and Greenwich will host another. :)

I start prenatal yoga again tomorrow and am really looking forward to starting that up again.  We are also finally getting our radon mitigation taken care of tomorrow after having to do some work to the sump pump system (N.B. don't ever buy a house with one of these) in preparation of having it done.  Yes, it's somehow been a full year since we discovered we needed to have this done.  I guess we haven't had anything else going on... ;)  We also have ADT coming on Monday to move our glass break to the soon to be enclosed living room and install a window sensor in the new nursery.  Baby steps...

I went up the Arlington Design Center (which I didn't even know existed, a mini Merch Mart in my hood :)) the other night for a Ben Moore color event.  I got to roaming around Kravet/Lee Jofa and found another cute fabric that has my colors (blue and golden yellow).  Can't decide whether I love it enough/more than my Uzbek or not.

Halometer by Kravet

This would go wonderfully with the wool rug I had bought from Garnet Hill for our smaller nursery, though I think I've found a new rug from Dash & Albert to go with Uzbek for the new/bigger one.  Ah, decisions, decisions...

Oh and we finally got our headboard from CSN (well, I finally ordered it and it came very promptly from IN).  It's gorgeous and much nicer than you'd think was possible for $290 for a king ($250 after my voucher).  Love it!  Don't mind all the wrinkles...

Happy Friday!

13 weeks!

I still can't believe we are 13 weeks along.  Bye bye 1st tri!  I took off my very last E2 patch today (OMG!) after being on them (and up to four at one point) since the 1st of April (after starting BCP in March!).  That was a very long time ago and I think it will take awhile for the skin on my stomach to go back to normal.  It looks like I had the Olympic rings tattooed down there.  I'm looking forward to being able to tend to my skin appropriately again. 

I also get to start weaning off of my PIO tonight (from 1.5cc nightly since April 21st, to 1cc for a week, then .5cc for another week).  Only two more weeks of meds to go...  My butt can't wait.  Don't listen to anyone who tells you that an FET is easier or shorter or whatever than a fresh cycle.  Hogwash.  We spent nearly as much on four months of maintenance meds for our FET as we did for our stims for a fresh cycle.

Finally went to the new chiropractor today.  She is really nice and even though I've been feeling pretty good, my spine is completely wacky.  She adjusted me today and I go back twice next week, once the next and then I'll go in every other week.  Very thankful we have chiropractic coverage, I almost forgot how good it feels.

Prenatal yoga starts up again on the 23rd.  Sadly, the wonderful instructor I had for fertility yoga and prenatal last time has moved to MN for her husband's job and there will be a new instructor.  I miss Jen. :'(  I could also go into the city and do it several places there, but I've got five pre-paid classes at PDTM from my last pregnancy, so I'm going to start there and see how it goes.

In other exciting news, I finally broke down and bought a new, bigger, and wireless bra.  I'm in heaven.  I also discovered the wonder of panel pants.  Thank you God!  I've got several great summer dresses to wear, but sometimes you want to be able to throw on some capri pants and a cute summer top.  Victory!