Moving On...

So I'm extremely frustrated: since the last time I wrote I've taken THREE more tests. Saturday, April 15, and Sunday, April 16 (morning) then Thursday April 20 (again in the morning). So far all of them have been negative but Craig doesn't know about the one I took on the Saturday night.

And I still haven't gotten my period. All of the symptoms I thought I had are gone now. I'm beginning to think that maybe I invented them all along.

Craig thinks that maybe the period I got at Grandma and Grandpa's house was a fluke. Today is day 43 so the chances are really slim that I'm actually pregnant. *sigh* Oh well, I find solace in the fact that we're going to start trying to get pregnant in a few months anyway.

Craig and I have come to the realization that Shaun's slightly delayed in his gross motor development. I was at Mary's baby shower today and there was a little girl exactly 8 months old who was crawling and pulling herself up onto furniture. Shaun's not even close to doing any of that. But the sensible Michelle reminds me that life is better with Shaun not crawling. Especially since I've been looking after Xan and Bailey now. The house will sure be busy this summer with 2 babies crawling and Xan! And hopefully I'll be pregnant too. What's wrong with me? What am I thinking?!

Craig and I have been seriously looking at buying a minivan. The first thought was a Mazda MPV but Craig wasn't impressed with some of its reviews on the internet. Now we're focussed on the KIA Sedona. We're aiming at around $8000 for the car and we could probably get a Sedona for about $12000 but won't spend more than about $14000. We're hoping to go out tomorrow morning and price some of them. Strickland in Stratford has one for $10000. That's where dad has bought a couple of cars and says that Strickland's motto is "high volume, low profit". I'll have to call and find out how many kms.

I have so much more to write but so much more to take care of in the house...

Still Negative

Two pregnancy tests and both turned out to be negative. I did the second one this mroning. It's sort of frustrating because I know I'm pregnant but can't seem to convince Craig since the tests say I'm not.

• March 11 period begins - Day 1
• March 28 unprotected sex - Day 17
• April 5 period cramping - Day 25
• April 9 negative test - Day 29
• April 11 negative test - Day 31

Funny that I'm on day 31. This is the same point I was at when I did the first test with Shaun. It was 5 days later, when I tested again, that I finally found out.

I wonder if a blood test would be more accurate? Is that how they do it in fertility clinics? Maybe I'll go to the walk-in clinic tomorrow...

Pregnant Again?

I'm POSITIVE I'm pregnant again... I think it happened exactly 2 weeks ago today. I don't have any symptoms except that I've been feeling crampy for about 5 days and it's like I have a bubble sitting where my uterus is. I certainly feel it when I'm sitting or bending over.

I walked to Walmart with Shaun yesterday and bought 2 tests. Of course, it came out negative; I knew it would, it's too early. I'll take another one on Saturday.

And another reason why I think I'm pregnant, when we had sex 2 weeks ago I was ovulating (I know by the way I was feeling). My cycle, I'm guessing, is around35 days (that's what it was before Shaun) and it would have been day 17 that Tuesday. This Saturday will be day 35.

But it's almost not even worth testing because I KNOW I am!

No No No

Nothing new this week but I forgot to write about his "no-no-no" last week. I was doing the dishes one day and peeked around the corner at Shaun who was playing on the carpet. He looked up, smiled and shook his head back and forth at me. It was so adorable. Now Craig and I will do that and say "no-no-no" at the same time and Shaun will copy us... with a giant grin of course!

I went to the Maple Syrup Festival this morning with Julia and Laura. It was so busy! And when I came home I was able to nurse Shaun and then pump and additional 3 ounces. I just used that milk in his cereal at 3:00.

Erika got married today and we had dinner with everyone at Oriental Taste. Dinner was great and Shaun was so good until the very end... it was hours past his nap time.

Just a quiet week this week; I weigh in on Wednesday but that's it. We'll see how that goes!