Happy Birthday, Aly!

My beautiful niece is 2 years old today! She had a little birthday party at her house where all of her cousins (besides the 2 that don't live in Houston) and some of her best friends came over to play. It was so cute watching all the little girls (and one little boy, haha) play with the bubbles, balls, and cupcake frosting! So, J and i are in major baby fever mode. J had a really great time playing with all of them. Those girls loved him! My niece is pretty partial to him, as well. Nobody is as cool as "Uncle J." 

I got pretty down on the fact that I hadn't O'd yet, but I've given up on those feelings. I'm just going to go with the flow now. I just hate that this could be our last chance for a 2009 baby. But, when it's right, it's right. 

Stats:

-CD 27

Back and Forth

I'm beginning to think that this might be another long cycle. Maybe I'll have normal/long/normal/long, etc. I haven't been very stressed, but maybe moving and the kitchen rennovations have put more pressure on my body than I'm realizing. I was severely dissapointed in my temp today- the exact same as yesterday! I tested it later to make sure that it was still working, and it is. I only have the teeniest amount of EWCM, and I almost feel like it's not enough to mark it on my chart. I do, anyways. Based on the mass amount of EWCM that I had on CD 22 and my low (normal pre-O, i should say) temps these past 2 days, I'm pretty sure I'm having delayed O. Lame. J and I are putting a lot of hope into this cycle since, as I've said before, it'll probably be our last chance at having a child in 2009. 

On a good note, we have completely cleaned out the apartment! We go tomorrow to turn in our keys and write our 2nd to last check (our lease breaking fee)! I'm so ready to not have to deal with it anymore. Changing our address on everything has been a bit of a pain, though. 

ALSO, our kitchen should be done by next friday! YAY! They've started doing the "pretty" stuff today- installing our new doors and drawers on the new island. They should be painting either tomorrow or Monday, and we get our granite on tuesday! Oh, I'm so excited to have a kitchen again. I want to cook! 

Stats:

-CD 25

It jumped!

I have O'd. We'll see what day FF says that it happened, though, since yesterday was such a teensy little rise. It's an open circle, you might note. I've woken up at around 4am the last two days for now apparent reason. Yesterday, I went back to sleep and temped at my normal time (6am), so I marked it sleep deprived. Today, I had to pee, so I took it when I got up. The temp adjuster on FF said it would have actually been around 97.7, which is around where my post-O temps usually are. Tomorrow should confirm, but I probably won't get crosshairs for a few days due to those darn open circles. I'm not working tomorrow, so it should be a good day. Wake up- see high temp- go back to sleep for a few more hours-clean the apartment up with my mom- do nothing. 

I saw this game floating around, and I thought it would be fun: You go to the 4th album of pictures on your computer and post the 4th picture in it and then explain it. Here goes: It's my niece! Miss Alexandra (or Aly) in July (about 1 1/2 years old). J and I went over to her house and had a pool party with her. Good times. Is she not freaking adorable? I want to steal her. She had a great time that day playing with her boat and the bubbles in the water. I love her.

Stats:

-CD 23: ?? DPO