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Friday, January 22, 2010

Don't judge a book by it's cover!...

I never get to listen to "adult" music now that I'm a mommy! It seems that we listen to toddler TV & toddler tunes in the car. MAYBE Daddy will turn on his CMT after dinner but I cannot even remember the last time I listened to MY music. SO you can understand how I have no idea about who is hot or popular in the music scene. SO imagine my surprise when I sat down the other day to watch my taped episode of Oprah. She started the show out with clips from Lady GaGa video's. At first I said to myself you don't want to watch this. I had not heard anything good about her & really never listened to her music. But I decided I would see what she was all about & maybe find about this new sensation. I have to say that I watched the entire interview! She even made me a somewhat "fan". More for the woman she is than the songs she writes. She has quite the head on those shoulders of hers. The way she spoke to Oprah & her fans made me like her, AND she spoke on how important it is to keep a good relationship with your parents. VERY cool! And to think all of this serious talk from a twenty three year old lady! That old saying ran true to me that day...

Don't judge a book by it's cover!...

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

ABC's & 123's...

Little did I know when I bought the tribe a "traveling" CD that we would ALL be singing the songs. This all began when I was invited to one of those Discovery Toys parties. You know the company that sells all of those developmental toys for children. You host a party at your house & then invite all of your friends. Well one of the mom's in my mom's club had a party & invited me. Like I need more toys in my house! LOL! They do have some COOL toys but I just have to watch my pennies if you know what I mean! LOL! I decided to buy them some play phones & a Sounds like FUN CD to play in the 'burb for when we travel back & forth to Grandma's house. Anything to make an hour car ride more pleasantWhen the CD finally did arrive I popped it into the player in our 'burb & I was not that excited by it. It sounded VERY boring! The woman doing all of the singing seemed to sing in the same tune. Dustyn was with us & he too was not impressed. We really thought the CD could have been better. Apparently we know very little about toddler music because the tribe has made us eat those words! They LOVE this CD! It has become a staple in our car rides, especially our road trips! They know EVERY song by heart & sing them all! Heck we ALL sing them! Last month when we were in GA my teenage nieces even started singing the alphabet song. Apple, Apple, Ah Ah Ah... Baby, Baby, Ba Ba Ba... See it is catchy! The words they use in their ABC song are cute too! E is elbow, G is garden, etc... There's even a song that discusses numbers. But not just 1, 2 or 3. It goes up to 100. Ten, twenty, thirty, forty & fifty... I find them counting up to numbers I did not even realize they knew. When we were at my brother's house in GA they counted the stairs up to twelve. They are not even 2 1/2 yet! It's AMAZING! This CD has really jumped started their little minds & opened up their vocabulary. They LOVE using their words especially when they are put to music. And to think all of this came about due to a silly CD of...

ABC's & 123's...

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

We did it!

We FINALLY have DSL! I am SO happy! It is such a weird feeling to be able to view videos and music. I can listen to a song without the computer stopping & starting. I have never been able to do this!! I might just have to create an online music library. I can do this can't I?!? I am just SO PSYCHED! Chat with you all later....

Our Story...

Ok I am now over 8 years into this "job" of mine, being a mommy to multiples, high order multiples to boot! They say that if you try to conceive without protection for one year with no success then you are infertile. Those words were a lot to take in. I sought answers from everyone. We started out with our 1st OB/GYN Dr William Casale doing the normal testing that they were equipped to do. We did it all, IUI's, spermwashing, etc. I then contacted RESOLVE, a wonderful organization for people like me (could not get pregnant). I started making mental notes of what I needed to achieve my dream, to be a mom! The next step was to go see a Fertility Doctor. We chose to see Dr Mark Denker. After checking me out he then referred Michael to see a Urologist who ended up putting him on clomid. Yes, men can take this RX too! It helps make more sperm just like it helps a woman create more follicles. It is AMAZING the things you learn when you are trying to conceive! After further testing we were both told we had fertility issues, I had fewer eggs than a woman my age & they were "tough", Michael had double vericasils so that in order for us to have the "best odds" we needed to go the IVF route. I had this feeling that it was not going to work right away, call it my intuition. So we bought a package, can you even believe that they sell "packages" like a travel agency? Our "package" included 3 rounds of IVF with ICSI, minus all the meds I would need. The drugs are an expense we did not even think of but had to purchase for this entire thing to work. Well, it ended up taking all 3 rounds of IVF & accupuncture courtesy of Dr Susan Schiff for me to get pregnant & boy did I get pregnant! (Trust your intuition!) We started out with very few follicles, only 3 fertilized into embryo's and all three took. I was finally pregnant! 8 weeks into my pregnancy one of the embryo's split & became identical. Can you believe that!? What are the odds? No one told me that could happen! AMAZING! We had a lot of decisions to make. No one thought that we should keep all four. In the medical world it is called a "selective reduction". Only a few doctors even do this procedure. We did not know what our future would hold just that we could not reduce anything! In the beginning we had a hard time finding a doctor that felt like we did & wanted our four babies to thrive! We finally found Dr Moises Virelles, a fellow Christian & my now OB/GYN. He then referred us to an AWESOME Perinatologist, Dr Gary Cohen. Having the two of them on our side we knew ANYTHING was possible! My pregnancy was really uneventful. I was put on "bed rest" at 22 weeks. I later found out my "bed rest" was unlike other women's bed rest. I was just not allowed to work. I continued to do things, just stayed off my feet as much as possible. If I went shopping I would ride a motorized scooter. If I went to a party I sat pretty much the entire time. I had no issues, my cervix was long & rock solid. I really feel that God wanted me to be a mommy! The babies were great! They kicked each other more than they kicked me! People would look at me & could not believe that I had four babies inside me, I tell you I was meant to carry quads! Now don't get me wrong, it was not a joy ride, I was miserable towards the end & felt it very difficult to breathe. I never even went into the hospital prior to January 15th. Even though I asked them to admit me MANY times!! On January 17, 2007 we welcomed our GBGG quads; Camryn, Brendan, Avery & Lindsey into this world. 1 set is fraternal & 1 set is identical. They weighed 4 lb 7 oz, 4 lb 4 oz, 3 lb 6 oz & 3 lb 3 oz. I made it 32 weeks 5 days when I delivered them at St Mary's Medical Center. They were all HEALTHY and they did not need to be intubated! WOO HOO! They were little miracles destined to be here! I had nurses come up to me & tell me how wonderful it was that I carried them so long, that it was a better gift holding onto them as long as I did than a Harvard education! WOW! We were SO happy, excited & most of all unprepared for how much our life was about to change. I will say it was a GOOD change! I cannot imagine my life without them! Everyone watches our little ones in amazement & they still do. This is their story....

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