The lounge chair gang

Most nights after dinner but before bedtime the entire gang is sleepy, with their bellies full they cuddle up on the lounge chair, here's a typical night...

The napping lovers

Clementine is our shih tzu and Papi is our 8 month old cat, they've grown up together and Clementine simply loves Papi. They sleep and rough house together. Here they are napping together in the lounge chair.

Oh christmas tree, oh christmas tree...

We really owe an apology to thee.... Things have been just too busy to get to our lovely, albeit naked, unadorned christmas tree. One of the best in recent years, i guess we just have to appreciate it in it's natural state

"It could be a bug..... "

On Friday, December 26th, we visited the doctor for an ultrasound and blood test. Everything looked good, with one of the blasts having turned into an egg sac and showing up as a small dark circle on the ultrasound. The doctor was nice enough to print us out a copy of the image.

Later that day, Maggie had a chiropractic appointment. When we arrived, she excitedly showed the doctor the ultrasound picture and he congratulated us. His two young sons were also there because of Christmas break and were curious about what was going on. It went something like this:
Gage: (younger son): "Why did my dad congratulate you?"

me: "Well my wife and I just got some good news, she's pregnant and your dad just saw the picture"

Gage: "Wow that's great, she's got a baby inside?"

me: "Yup, but it's really small, about the size of a jelly bean, or the tip of my pinky finger." I said, as I waggled my pinky to demonstrate.

Gage: Now waggling his own pinky, "That's really small."

me: "Yes it is."

Gage: "You know, it could be a bug."

me: This cracked me up but I played along and said "Yeah it's pretty small, it could be a bug."

To which he replied: "If it was mine, it would be a ladybug!"

A blast from the past

For our second round of IVF, our doctor recommended culturing the embryos to the blastocyst stage (5 days after retrieval). So here without further ado are our blasts, woohoo!

I think they have Maggie's eyes :)