Chi is Kristina. (:

I too shall send you labor vibes on the 11th, which ironically is the day I'll be taking my first at home pregnancy test to find out! xD What an exciting day! lol

So I'm staying with surro daddies and surro baby and OMG HE'S WALKING. This little 7 pound bundle from a year ago is WALKING! (well, okay, he's taken up to 8 steps by himself but still) It's so friggan cute! He took a couple of hours to warm up to me. At first he was just like No thanks crazy woman I'm hanging out with my dads, but then he was like ya know, *hits my leg & giggles* and we've been friends since. :lol:

I don't like switching from Alaska time to Eastern time. I'm 4 hours behind everyone. Here it is 11 pm, the guys have been asleep for an hour and I want to talk to people. I want to call Scott and talk to my babies since it's only 7 there, but I don't want to wake Owen or Daddies. ): rawr.

That is what I thought :) just didn't want to be wrong and have someone be like "who the heck????"

Can you step outside or is it really cold there?

I can't believe it has already been a year since you had Owen!!! It is freaking amazing!

Sorry, I disappeared. :lol: Terra had a sudden meltdown and I got her ready for bed.

Yep, that's me! And yep, pictures.

Mellie, I hope you're preggers on the 11th then. Maybe everything will align. New life will be in you, and new life will be exiting Jaz. :XD

I found out today that yesterday was the 4 year anniversary of Daddy #1's dads death. So death on the same day we're implanting a couple of embryos. Hopefully we can bring some happiness to yesterdays date. ^^;; Today little embryos are 21 days old. I'm lying on my stomach and my uterus feels heavy. I think it's all that fluffy lining. oof. And i've been cramping. Progesterone makes me cramp, but every cramp freaks me out. I start to think that I'm losing baby and how horrible it would be for that to happen here. But I know that it can't happen here because I won't drop lining until either baby is born, or I stop the progesterone shots since it prevents that from happening. /freak out!

Everyone is running toward your birthday with anticipation chi! lol

Jaz- I could step outside I suppose... but they live in like the 12th floor of an apartment complex that you either need a key to get into if you go outside, or the door man to recognize you, which he wouldn't so if I left I'd be trapped in the big city...which horrifies me more than these embys splitting into triplets. xD

Mellie Sean was born on my step dad to be's dead brothers either death date or birthday I can't remember which... Robin teared up when he found out I had asked for that day for an induction... <3

I am thinking pregnant thoughts for you Mellie! Big fluffy pregnant thoughts lol... I am excited to see you surrogate another baby (or two..) I know the chance are higher for embryo splitting when they are implanted via IFV but try not to dwell on it. There isn't a lot you can really do for it. Unfortunately :( Just got to relax... The more you relax the easier the little boogers are going to be able to attach <3 stressing isn't good for anyone!

Jazzy is a picture addict though I've been failing at getting them uploaded lately I still need to upload Halloween pictures... :P

I really do hope we can both align like that <3 Mellie is pretty good at getting pregnant (I'm pretty good at it too :P) I have faith that at least one of us will have good news that day...

I'm attempting to stay pretty zen. I believe getting their internet password really helped with that. xD Their computer was really pissing me off last night! But yay for lappy!

I've tried to take a few pictures of Owen/ But as soon as he sees a camera he reaches for it and he moves like crazy! This kid seems to be pretty anti-picture. O.o

They took him out today to this little socializing class or something where he plays around with other kids (okay, really he steals other kids toys and makes them cry...) and they both went so I've had the apartment to myself for about an hour...it's so loud in the city though I don't even feel alone! lol

I'm actually hoping for twins. ;D boy girl twins. It would be flippan AWESOME imo. but maybe I'm just a glutton for pain?

I think boy girl twins would be totally awesome!!!!

I agree on the awesomeness. I'll be thinking happy thoughts for you!

Today we took a trip down to my mom's house, and I feel more at peace with the upcoming move. I also feel a little stronger with regard to getting what we need out of this. See, where we get student loans, we pay our rent in advance. We're paid up through January, and we plan on moving in December. Sooner, perhaps.

Our water has been questionable from the get-go, and we did express concerns to no avail. So, for peace of mind, I'm getting the water tested for safety. If it comes back contaminated, we'll file for unfit living conditions. Either way, at this point I believe we will break the lease. We were going to be upstanding law abiding citizens and just pay rent for February and March, but not anymore. That's done anyway, security deposit be damned.

So! I am feeling much more peppy and ready to tackle this move. There is space for everything we need, and we'll get extra cash from selling some of our current stuff. Take that, uncaring landlords!

/Me too. ;)

It's so weird when I stop and think that there maybe a 21 day old baby living within me. O.o Crazy.

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Yay for the brightside of things Chi! And you seem to have everything figured out. It's pretty darn awesome imo. (:

Go Chi!!!

I've got to get stuffs finished around here.... Sore back be damned!!!

Don't overdo it, Jaz! Dx

And that was the first thing I thought of, Mellie. "Awww, baby may already be settling in!!"

Thanks gals! I'll let you know how it goes. I imagine I won't get the testing kit 'till Tuesday, and if I mail it Wednesday I might not get results 'till next Monday or something. Either way, Cole and I are going to pack our clothes/all of Terra's stuff and move down to Mom's house when she moves out her clothing and knickknacks. I imagine closer to Thanksgiving? Then we'll take photos of our stuff here and sell it. :)

I am trying not too :( My back is evil to me... It's kind of my back and my ribs if that makes any sense... I am laying down every time I finish a project.... Load of laundry... Lay down... Load of dishes lay down... Luckily Dillon is home today and tomorrow he is much more able to be diligent then me :P I honestly can't believe it is already 6 we've been working all day O_O;

Dillon got 6 or so bags of yard rubbish bagged up and ready to be taken on Wed... (I swear the "mulch" they used in our outer lawn never ends...)

Sounds like she's running out of room and fitting wherever she can now! Has she fully descended into the birth canal, or does she keep moving around/shifting?

I know they say a lot of babies don't move much after descending, but Terra did. She'd go down, lock in, and get back out. Repeatedly. O_o

You know the doctor hasn't actually said... O_O; I don't think he's said last time but judging from the...... Digging... they had to do to get to my cervix and measure it I'd say even if she is she's at like -2 position... She moves around a lot but I don't thing she goes in and out of being engaged I just don't think she has enough torso room to do that... Even though she has dropped I feel her under my ribs all day long... O.o and I feel her head hit or grind my cervix... so yeah she's running out of room fast lol.... Eviction notice has been POSTED lol...

But yeah she moves plenty lol I actually mess with her a lot cause she will make my belly really WIIIIIDE and I'll push her back into being long lol... It saves my ribs that way at least for a few minutes....

I decided to clear of the roundy pregnant chair and I feel a lot better :) awesome chair is awesome!

Eviction notice has been posted, lol. :XD Love it.

I remember the head wriggling and grinding. She would do that, and when she was down that low I would stand and feel like she was going to fall out. I would also have to do the preggo waddle because her head was between my legs. But then she would move back up, the pressure would go, and with it my waddle disappeared.

Definitely gotta get comfy when you can! It's an awesome thought that if you do go on the 11th, you have less than a week to go!

I waddle but that is cause she likes to lay against my sciatic like Mikes did O_o;;

I am kind of sad... My due date buddy got her doctor to agree to induce her on the 9th... I don't think even if I WANTED to be induced that early my doc would allow me to do it at only 38 weeks... The hospital flat told me if I go into labor and it doesn't progress on its own they WON'T help it until I am 39 weeks!

Mine refused until 40. Dx

I was going in for a non-stress test for the baby as I was 40 weeks. She popped out less than 12 hours before the appointment, lol.

I am going to wait for the official 40 week day... The 22nd.... I don't think I've ever had an NST... O_o

With me, it was a case of them testing at 40 weeks the baby's heart rate, placental functioning, and whether or not it was safe to let the pregnancy go on. My memory is fuzzy, but I seem to recall laying on a bed for the longest while with a fetal monitor on close toward the end.

I just asked Cole, and he said we did the non-stress at or within a day of 40 weeks, and she was fine, so they scheduled the appointment 3 days later to make sure the placenta was still functioning. It was then she came out. XD

I know it was messed up either way because we went on a Sunday. They messed up scheduling and didn't realize I was at 40 weeks, so they made staff work around the weekend. >_> We didn't request it at all. <3

Maybe it is because I never made it to 40 weeks (been induced at 39 weeks with both boys) and never been really high risk either :P though I was supposedly high risk with Michael cause I was a teenager which I think is stupid... My body handled pregnancy so much better then then now lol.. Though I really shouldn't complain this pregnancy has been pretty uneventful... When I compare it to Sean's, Ellie's done NOTHING to me... lol

I worry about another, as Terra's went flawlessly. I dunno if I have what it takes to deal with a bad one. >_>

LOL There isn't much you can do as far as a bad pregnancy goes... You just go with the flow... You don't have a whole lot of choice :P

I had a few non stress tests with the twins. One day I didn't feel Aaron moving at all, even after eating. It really scared me since I was around 33 weeks along. And the thought of losing my baby at that point was just horrifying. So I called the doctor and they made me drink the nasty pregnancy diabetic testing drink and lay down/ They put a blue monitor over aarons heartbeat, and a pink one over melodys and both were strong and beautiful. even if it took them some time to find Melodys. xD I had another one a week later to make sure they were still doing good, and they'd scheduled one a week after that as well, but I never made it to that one. ^^;; I always like it when you book appointments and babies decide to just skip it. It's like man, that appointment sounds like loads of fun, I wanna come too! lol

I've had good and bad pregnancies...some are wonderful and others you just get through. And you pray they get better. xD

I've never had that experience :/ babies don't want to come out for me...

I think this one will want to. Just give her some time. ;) Girls are better listeners. lol. Owen didn't want to come out either, I forced that kiddo out.


speaking of: he's been super cranky the last couple of days. It makes me remember why I didn't want another baby. xD I can only take so much of the crying before I walk into another room to "relax" because ya know, I don't want to stress myself. ;)