Blogger ate my post

I spent some time late Friday night to update you all. And then I pressed publish and blogger told me it could not automatically save and then my post disappeared and I didn't have the emotional energy to type it again. It was about my sister.. a lot. I just spend several hours talking to her trying to get out some of my feelings so I am too spent to rehash here right now, but I will soon.

So, my progesterone rebounded to 30. Which means in 3 weeks since discontinuing the PIO it went from 44 to 22 to 14 to 30. Not sure if last week's number was a mistake, or if it took a while for this embryo to kick the progesterone production up a notch. Either way... I 'm glad it's back up. Next ultrasound is on Wednesday at which point I will be 9 weeks and I am left wondering how the hell that happened so fast.

Boo was very cuddly today. Kept coming up to me and offering kisses and at one point, as I lay on the couch, crawled up on me and snuggled his cheek right into my cheek and said "ahhh..nice" I am left awestruck often at how much of my heart he dominates but today..... today I realized that the feeling was mutual and that my friends was the most amazing feeling I have ever felt. Should stave me through the time he tells me he hates me later on.

At his 18 month appointment he was 33 inches (75%) and 25 lbs (50%) and the doctor was quite impressed with how far ahead he was on some of his developmental milestones. He has about 50 words and combines them into short, simple sentences such as "I want that" or "I did it" or "I don't know". He applies the vocabulary he has to unknown situations in somewhat appropriate contexts... for example he wanted me to open the window the other day but doesn't know the word open so he pointed at the window and said "up and down pease". He likes to run away from you when you tell him it's time to change his diaper and the other day I called him a turkey and he looked at me and said "gobble, gobble" as he laughed and ran away.

He is so mobile. He can run very fast, fast enough that I have to actually run to catch him. He can jump, actually lifting two feet off the ground. He has learned that when jumping on the bed he should jump straight up and then pull his legs straight up, in a pike position, so that he lands on his bum and legs and doesn't go flying off the bed. He goes up and down the stairs with far too much ease and has recently discovered that he can poke his toes into the holes of our gates and can almost hoist himself over them. I have fixed that by buying him several pairs of rubber sole slippers and am making him wear them all day long. And right now he loves to go "galloping" around the living room, lifting his feet and hop/skipping while making horse feet sounds (with his tongue and the roof of his mouth). I think this comes from his past favorite book "Oh the wonderful sounds Mr. Brown can do" There is one sentence that is "he can sound like horse feet and Rick and I always make the clicking sounds.

He loves to read. Loves, Loves,Loves it. In the right mood he will bring you 20 books in a row.... or 5 of his favorites and make you read each of them several times. He is a huge fan of Dr. Seuss. Right now he is enthralled with "Wacky Wednesday" and has read it so much in the last couple of weeks that he finishes the first sentence on almost every page. My favorite is when on the third page it says "I looked out the window and I said..." and he says in this excited little boy voice "Geeeeee"

We were at the store shopping a few days ago and he was getting overwhelmed in the toy section. He would go from toy to toy to toy pointing and saying in awe "Look at that"

That day in the store I looked at my son and thought to myself, where did this walking, talking little boy come from and where is my baby?