Happy Anniversary!

Today Matt & I have been married for 8 years!  It also marks the first day we officially started "trying" to start a family.  Those first few months don't really count as there was no way I was going to get pregnant when I wasn't cycling one bit.  I started taking metformin 6 months later in hopes of it helping me ovulate.  No such luck with it, either.  Six months later we added clomid.  We spent 6 months trying to make clomid work, but all it did was make me sick.  Then it was on to the fertility specialist.  It was another year and a half of trying injectible medications with IUIs.  I ovulated and even got pregnant 3 times, but all of them failed quickly.

IVF came next.  It was a success until we lost the twins at 5 months along.  That was only a month before our 4th anniversary.  We spent the next 3 anniversaries just the two of us with little hope of adding to our family.

Last year I had given up hope on ever getting pregnant again.  Around our anniversary I decided that I was up for one more shot.  I had spent months working on myself...I lost weight, I decided to start working out with a trainer, I started to see a counselor.  I was feeling so much better.  So, we would give it one more go...

This year we went to our annual anniversary dinner at La Fondue as a threesome.  Colin was wonderful.  Even though we went during the "witching hour" where he has been horribly fussy, he stayed rather calm and even napped on and off.  He barely made a peep through our whole 2 hour dinner.  Compared to the little 2-year-old boy sitting next to us, Colin was an angel.

Next year we might not be so lucky with Colin's temperament, but we are still the luckiest people in the world to be his parents.

Today's revelation:  Propping up Colin's bottle so the he "feeds" himself makes it easy for me to make my own lunch and eat while he does. :)