Interesting stats....

This isn't about Em perse...but interesting nonetheless--so I thought I'd share. The SART (fertility thing) posted a list of the 25 most successful clinics in the U.S. Ours is number 23--which rocks--but what I found even more interesting is that ours has the lowest number for average number of embryos transferred at 1.6 per cycle...most other clinics were closer to 2...yet ivf gets a bad name for multiple births?? Clearly the most successful clinics in the country aren't transferring 8....
Our clinic had 168 cycles out of 486 attempts...61.4% success rate---and yes--Em is one of those 168. When you look at it in those numbers, it reminds me yet again how unbelievably blessed we are!
In other news Em has officially become a walker--moving and grooving all over the place!! Our lil girl is all grown up!

On a more exciting note!

Em has taken approximately 10 unassisted steps in the last week--once at home and once at the gparents house! Before we know it she'll be running! She has also figured out how to go down stairs, watch out world!! It's very cute to watch, once I vaccum my stairs I hope to get video of it :)

Oh what a week.....

actually couple of weeks--let's recap. My last post was on Sun. the 25th, thinking Em was getting better--she puked again that night, I puked that night--so we both stayed home Monday. She puked again Monday--daddy didn't feel good but fortunately never got the pukies--he took Tues. morning off, I took off the afternoon. Weds. she went back to drinking milk instead of pedialyte and did ok, Thurs as well. Thurs. night I gave her a formula bottle--back up it came. Oh--happy 1st birthday on Thursday!! Based on how the week was going we didn't celebrate much--went to get pictures Friday and did dinner out. Friday no formula, no pukies. Saturday, formula bottle=pukies. It was then decided we were officially done with formula. We had been working on milk anyway--so we went cold turkey and went fine. The pukies were gone!! Sunday she started out a little cranky at church, and got progressively worse until she was full fledged screaming during 2nd service. We called the dr. and they said to go ahead and take her to convenient care-most likely an ear infection. Definitely ear infection #4 had arrived. Sunday night feeling much better---off to the Super Bowl party and had a grand time! Things have gone much better this week! Today was her 1 year appt. 19lbs 8oz (25th percentile) and 29 1/4 in (50 percentile). We got 1 shot and will go back next week for another. We are being referred to an audiologist/ent dr. to get the hearing checked and see what our next step is as far as the ears. I am concerned that she is not getting the speech she should be and dr. agreed. So we are to call Mon. morning for a referral.

Poor baby

Emily had her first visit from the pukeys yesterday--and it was definitely not fun for anyone involved! She seems to be doing better today--I'm thinking the 20 hours she slept helped quite a bit! Hopefully we are better now...and can move on from this experience!

Happy Birthday!

We celebrated Emily's birthday this weekend with a family party! We had lots of aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents over at the house. My dad made a typical dad suggestion of--we need to do this in July for her 1/2 birthday, so we can go outside, but we made due in the house. We had simply food--lunchmeat sandwiches, relish tray, and of course deviled eggs (my favorite) and ham-pickle thingies (Chuck's favorite). Here are a few pictures to capture the day....




Riding the pony Aunt Martha and Gma and Gpa Leader got me---my legs aren't quite long enough yet!


Going for a ride around the house in my new wagon with cousin Jenna--thanks Mama and Papa Hilman!


Helping mommy open presents! I'm getting good at this present opening stuff! (And yes that's money in my hot lil hand :) )


Taking a ride in my sled from Mama and papa Hilman.


My very own cake! I tried to put the candle out with my fingers, but daddy insisted on blowing it out!


Mmmm.....this is some good stuff!!


I don't know why we don't eat this every day!! I also had a great time sharing my cake with Keeno--he thought it was enjoyable as well!

Staying at home....

I think I could get used to this staying home business. We had a "cold" day today so no school, and Em and I got to hang out all day long and it was fabulous! She took 2 wonderful naps, I got quite a bit of cleaning done, and we got to play and read and listen to music and it has been great. I think I could do this everyday :) Lucky me--another cold day tomorrow and the MLK day Monday--Tuesday is going to be a really hard day!

More Christmas Pics

Well Emily's 1st Christmas is over...and boy did she make out nicely! We had Christmas with the Hilmans, Christmas with the Leaders and Christmas with the Kingmas. It was quite a month. Christmas with the Hilmans is in the previous post--here is Christmas with the Leaders and Kingmas.




Helping Daddy open a present at the Kingmas.



Her new American Girl doll---she was sooo excited and loves carrying her baby around.




Opening presents on Christmas Eve after church.




Chuck, Sarah and Emily after Christmas Eve service.