3 1/2 years old!

At 3 1/2 this little boy is so friendly! Every time he sees a kid anywhere, he says "Look a friend!" He also loves making friends with the elderly. He calls almost every gray haired person he meets "grandma/grandpa" and loves to give them hugs and hold their hands. Not a stranger walks by on the sidewalk without Kyler cheerfully yelling "Hi!!" and waving his arms.

His preschool picture. website here: http://heathergaydeski.shootproof.com

A few more random things about Kyler:

He loves: blowing bubbles, riding his bike, and playing with balloons (still)

He doesn't like: shopping at Walmart, eating veggies, or getting the hiccups (he thinks they make him feel like he is going to throw up).

He's really good at: memorizing books that we read him, letter recognition, using his fine motor skills, and he's also really good at making messes :p

He is scared of: smoke detectors and anything else that makes loud beeping sounds

Words I love hearing him say are:

busgetti  (spagetti)

carfet (carpet)

popcart (poptart)

pilloff (pillow)

bunnit (button)

He likes going to: the library, the beach, Ikea, preschool, and church- but is not a big fan of primary yet- he'd rather be playing in nursery!

His favorite songs are: songs he makes up about random objects "The door song" or "The light song" but his favorite real song is "The Wise Man Built His House Upon the Rock."

Ohhh, Kyler -we love this friendly and happy little boy!

Mother's Day 2014

My mother's day was very lazy day- just what I needed! I had ANOTHER stomach bug on Saturday and was still catching up on rest on Sunday. This was the second stomach bug I've had in two months! When I got to work on Monday, I found out that all of my students except 4 had thrown up over the weekend. Crazy that we all got it at the same time.

Jared and Kyler made me breakfast in bed on Mother's day. They also made me a "Happy Mother's Day" banner (like I used to make my own mom growing up) and of course they smothered me with candy, service (and presents!).

...and because lately I've seen too many over edited pictures with eyes brightened so much they look fake and teeth whitened to the extreme, and don't get me started on over airbrushing. Not that those tare terrible occasionally and in moderation... I just hate looking at pictures that have been edited so much they don't even look like the actual person anymore! blahhh I miss good old fashioned red eye pictures! So I'm going to post one :D

Okay weird! On my phone and on my desktop, Kyler's eyes are RED but as soon as I uploaded it to blogger...the red is gone.... that's a little bit freaky and slightly disturbing. Blogger automatically edits my pictures for me now?! What is going on?!

Anyways, I'm getting off topic- back to my Mother's Day. At church, all of the children (ages 3-11) sang a few Mother's Day songs us. This was Kyler's first year singing to me, but he was so nervous he ran to a teacher to hold him and just stared out at the audience like a deer in headlights. hahaha I still loved it though, and heard him practicing the song many times in the comfort of our own home beforhand  :)

Mail for Kyler

I was just looking through my recent photos to see what I could put up here, but I realized I already shared most of them on instagram or Facebook, and I don't know why, but I don't like re-posting them on the blog. BUT I'm going to post this next picture again anyways, because it was a big deal to Kyler.

He received a letter from Schramma and Schrammpa (my parents) who are serving a church mission in Chile! They also sent him a latex glove and told him he could blow it up like a balloon (they know him well haha).

He LOVED it! I don't know if it was because it was from my parents, or because it came in the mail for him, but he was really excited about it. He carried the letter around the house with him for a few days. He would pull it out of his pocket every once in a while and pretend to read it, and then tuck it safely away again.

As for the balloon, it popped 20 minutes after he received it on a thorn from the rose bush. He was devastated and talked about how Schramma was going to be so sad that his balloon popped :( 

Poor little balloon deprived boy! Looking at that pouty face makes me want to go buy him a new balloon!

A journey (part 7) --- Fertility Specialist.

I'm going to copy and paste another piece of our journey towards expanding our family below. If you haven't read the previous parts, you can do so HERE.

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Today is January 4, 2014- "N" is for not pregnant. Last month I didn't get a single positive OPK test :( I called my OB to see if I could get a higher dosage of Clomid this month, but he told me no. So, I am now on my 3rd round of 50mg of Clomid. The side effects of this medication (at least for me) are: severe hot flashes, dizziness, and abdominal bloating. All of these side effects will all be worth it if we can just get 2 lines on the stick!

Also, this week I made an appointment for a consultation with a fertility specialist in 3 weeks! Never in my life (until recently) would I ever have thought I would need to go to a fertility specialist, especially because my first two pregnancies came so easy. We've been TTC for nearly 20 months now! This is nuts.

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Onto another piece of our journey....below!

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Today is January 24, 2014- we just had our first appointment with our fertility specialist! Sorry if you find this boring, but I feel like writing about it, so that I can remember everything that we did on this journey. Clomid didn't work for us again this month, January (not a single positive OPK, again!). Our RE aka fertility specialist doc, told us that if Clomid hasn't resulted in a pregnancy within 3 months, it most likely will never work for us, and we need to move on to other medications/methods.

Our RE doc wants us to try a few other medications before moving on to IUI's and IVF. I'm okay with this, because I believe that the doctor knows best, buuuut at the same time I just want to get pregnant and I feel like these medications and IUIs are going to be a waste of time and money. At this point, I feel like our most successful chance at conceiving is through IVF....but of course I hope I'm wrong.

Doc also told me that she is almost positive that I have PCOS (we will confirm at my next appointment).  Either way, I'm going to start two new fertility medications. The first is called Femara, (it increases hormones to create an egg) and the second is called Ovidrel (an injection that causes the body to release an egg/trigger ovulation).

Today I had some blood work done to check for insulin resistance (it's common with PCOS) and the other test was to check to see if I'm a carrier for any genetic abnormalities. I will be getting blood work and ultrasounds done about every two weeks (occasionally more often) from here on out to check hormone levels and follicle sizes.

Praying that we can find some answers that will help us get pregnant!

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-----> Current day Char here. Today, April 28, 2014, we would be celebrating our little angel's first birthday. I am so grateful for the knowledge that I have of Christ's Atonement and the Plan of Salvaton. I wanted to share an article that I read recently. It's by Chicko N. Okazaki- a former counselor in the Relief Society presidency for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

You can read the full article HERE. I just picked a few of my favorite parts above :)