Dino Lingo

So we have been searching for different language products for our daughter. In this day in age you have to be bi-lingual in order to be productive in the job and education market so we want to give her a leg up and start her early. Thanks to Influenster I ran across a program called Dino Lingo (http://dinolingo.com/languages/free_lesson.html) and I watched a video for their Spanish language program and I really liked it. I also like that they offer a LARGE variety of languages because as much as we travel it will be super helpful for our daughter to learn multiple languages! My daughter seemed to really like the clip and I think the bright colors and sounds will keep her engaged while she is learning! I like that Dino Lingo has created a language learning program for kids that can also help their parents learn  as well!

*I watched this clip thanks to a complimentary recommendation from Influenster

Crest 3D Whitestrips Update

So I am now finished with the Crest 3D Whitestrips Challenge and I am pretty pleased with the results! Although I did not feel that I needed to whiten all that much because I regularly use a whitening toothpaste and get dental cleanings but I do feel that it made a pretty noticeable difference. I plan to do another post giving all of my personal pros and cons on the product but that is all for now :-) Remember if you aren't whitening you are Yellowing!

 *I received these products thanks to Influenster free of charge and I am not being paid for my opinions!

Crest 3D White Strips!

Hello World!

I received my first VoxBox before I headed out for vacation this past week and I am SO excited to try these out especially with the holidays coming up! We are planning to take Family Holiday Photos and I am looking forward to having a dazzling white smile thanks to this great product! I will be posting my progress as I go along Stay Tuned!

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The Baby is Here!!

I know that I have seriously neglected this Blog but I plan to get back into blogging again now that our precious bundle of joy has arrived!

CD:19 INSEMINATION DAY!!!!!

After days of agonizing and having conversations about the possibilities of multiples and selective reduction we have made our final decision.... we decided to proceed with the ICI this cycle. After going to Acupuncture 3x a week, choking down 40+ pills per day, suffering through the effects of Clomid side effects, and going to the RE 3x a week was too much to just flush down the toilet at the finish line so we decided to sprint to the end! Lately I have been trying to live life by trusting my intuition and this one time that I am so happy that I went with my "gut". So today was a super long day, but it was so MAGICAL! I mean to start off the day was 09/10/11 how cool would that be to tell our child one day that was the day we inseminated! I had to make some serious decisions and adjustments to our schedules to make this insemination a reality. So today happens to be my longest workday that I have in a month, because it is essentially an 11hour day for me with driving and everything. I have to be in Everett (which is 40 miles north of Seattle) by 10am, DP had to be at work at 3, and the Andrology Lab where our spermies were being held was only open from 7am-10am. So we came to the conclusion that we could only inseminate before I went to work, but the problem was that we needed to inform the Andrology lab that we actually needed the sperm. I didn't get a positive OPK until after the office was closed yesterday so we had to tell them this morning. Well apparently they were on their own time because no one showed up at the office until 7:30 at that point I was stressing because we had a 9:00 appt with the Naturopath for the insemination and then I had less than 20 mins to get to Everett. Luckily I was able to get ahold of someone and I jetted to the clinic to pick up the vial at 8:30 they gave me the vial in a styrofoam cup, and all I could think was I bet this is the most expensive thing that has every been in a cupholder LOL!! My DP arrived at the same time as I did Naturopath's office and we waited for the Nauropath to arrive, while waiting I incubated the vial since it was not thawed yet, I also figured that being close to my heart would give them some incentive to want to stick around and fertilize! My naturopath didn't waste anytime getting down to the task at hand, she briefly explained what she was going to do again and then she had me undress from the waist down and hop on the table, which was great because I had dressed up from the waist up for the occasion LOL! Our Naturopath is great because she has wonderful energy and she explains everything that she was doing, so also allowed DP to help! Once she placed the speculum in she proud to announce that my cervix was nice and open and I had a nice "glaze" of egg-white cervical mucus! She asked me if I wanted to see & me being the science freak I am my answer was of course! Well someone had jacked her mirror so I was not going to be able to see it, and then DP had the wonderful idea that she could take a picture for me!! So I now have my wonderful cervix forever frozen in time in a picture! It is not an excellent picture because DP did not want to look LOL! So after that we got down to the insemination process. We inseminated at around 9:00am and after the insemination our Naturopath left us to our own "devices" *giggles* Hey they say an orgasm after insemination helps everything so why not? LOL! It was very akward to be trying to achieve an orgasm in a Dr.s office, but DP was up to the challenge and eventually it happened *blushing*. Afterwards we cleaned up, exchanged a quick kiss and headed our seperate ways back to work. The rest of my day was super hectic yet mellow all at the same time which was great. Mid-way through the day around 2:00) I started having some serious cramping and by early evening I was def in a lot of pain (Someone could have told me how awful Clomid Ovulation was LOL). I am so relieved that we insemmed before I went to work because when I got off at 7 it would have been too late, so it seems like the spermies were there in just enough time to meet the eggies which is even more exciting!! So we are now officially in the 2ww!! I will be at a conference in New York until next Sunday so I am hoping that allows me to keep my mind off everything so I don't have to stress about every twinge. Now I just need to figure out how to temp every morning without getting a lot of questions, since I am rooming with a colleague from work for the conference. 


I will try to check in sometime during the week, but if not then I will see you guys next Sunday!!


In the meantime xxxxBABYDUSTxxxx to all that need it & MANY BLESSINGS!!!

CD18: Positive OPK!!!

The silver lining in this all of this chaos came today. Let's start with the beginning of my day....


So for those of you who have been following the Vlogs/Blog saw that a few days back I made mention of my deceased daughter (I will do a video & post on my backstory in a few days), well our "song" was/is Lovely Day by Bill Withers. It never fails that when I am having a rough day, or I am in deep contemplation about something Lovely Day randomly pops up on my Zune, the radio or Pandora. So in the morning I usually listen to Pandora in the morning, but for the past week or so I have been playing my own playlist via Youtube and my Mp3 player on my phone, this morning however I decided to give Pandora another chance to get their act together (the mobile app for Pandora usually plays one song and then it "loads" for 15 mins). I spent about 10 mins sitting on the side of the bed "nexting" songs and then I decided to switch to my Neo-Soul channel. I LOVE Neo-Soul and it is always soothing to my soul, and being that I had just peed on a stick and I did not have a rise in my LH & my monitor & BBT had essentially flatlined I needed a boost. As I was in the closet I heard the opening bass line to Lovely Day and I literally said out loud "no way that is Lovely Day playing" but low and behold it was! Tears started flowing on the spot, I told Imani (my daughter) Hello and thanked her for comforting Mommy! After that I was on a high! I just kept thinking to myself now I need for my follicles & body to get it together and ovulate already!


I went through the rest of my day dealing with work stuff, trying to tie up loose ends before I leave for NYC on Monday. I tried not to think about, but all day I was thinking "I just need to Ovulate, I just need to Ovulate" of course adding "before Monday" but I went on with my day. When I got home from work DP & I ran a few errands and when we got home I was Googling about the trigger shot. Since we still have the trigger shot here at home I was seriously thinking about having DP trigger me so that we could inseminate on Sunday. 


While I was Googling I felt the urge to pee and I figured while I was there I mineswell test. So I used a 2 month expired OPK and almost instantly a 2nd line popped up, now mind you when I tested at 7am this morning it was stark white, no 2nd line or anything! And here was a 2nd line, I as excited enough about that, so I decided to try a "smiley face" OPK and to my surprise the SMILEY FACE showed up!!! I literally screamed at the top of my lungs and ran downstairs at top speed to show DP!! I was jumping up and down and all DP said was "umm can you get those pee sticks out of my face?" (what a buzzkill LMAO). I re-tested with a fresh (and not expired) OPK and it was positive as well!


After having 3 days of BBT temps still in the pre-O "dip" and I was convinced that I was going to one of the women that just don't ovulate on Clomid which was going to result in a cyst and we would have to sit out, but I am so happy that is something that we don't even have to contend with this cycle. 


We have scheduled our insemination for 9am tomorrow morning with the Naturopath we just need to retrieve our sperm from the RE's Andrology Lab!!! Fingers crossed that we are able to catch at least 1 of those eggies!!


Many Blessings xxxxBABYDUSTxxxx