Eggs are pipping!  Eggs are pipping! We should have babies tomorrow!  Humidity in incubator is stable for hatching, my fingers are crossed, & I’m trying my best to keep the incubator closed!!  I have my alarm set to get up early with the chickens.

Makinlee graduated from Pre-K on Thursday.  Where has the last 5 years gone?

Here she is receiving her Star Student award.  One child was chosen from each class.  I was thrilled when her name was called.  I’m so very proud of her!

Here are the newest members of the farm.  We have six new baby Golden Sebright Bantams.

baby Sebrights

The yellow chicks are random males the hatchery sent to keep the Sebrights warm on their trip.  They will be feed out and put in the freezer.  There are 10 of them! We have no idea what breed(s) they are.  When HL was home he was busy building a new chicken coop for our bantam breeds we are adding to the farm.  In July we are traveling to South Louisiana to visit two chicken breeders.  One breeds beautiful Golden Sebrights and the other raises the up and coming breed the Serama.  The incubator is busy here and our frist hatch is due on June 1st.  Keep your fingers crossed for a great hatch.

What in the world were my SIL and I thinking?  Coaching T-Ball??????  Huh?  Seriously, I played all my life it seems and was actually quiet good but coaching…bless their hearts.  I hope we were not as rowdy as these kiddos are.  Tonight was our first game and considering that several of our better players didn’t show up we did pretty good.  It was chaos though.  We had to move players around because of the missing kids and most of them didn’t really know what to do.  It’s amazing how these two turkeys take after each other.

Here is Makinlee batting.

How she managed to hit the “T” and actually get a good hit is beyond me but do you see her tongue?  What’s up with that?  That is some serious concentration.

Here is my nephew Leevi throwing the ball in to the pitcher.

See the tongue?  Too funny that they both do it.

I have to say that even with all the chaos with certain players not showing up and certain player not listening to simple directions, and certain kids CRYING IN TBALL it was an eye opener.  I cannot believe that coaches actually volunteer for this!  I am however VERY proud of my quiet, shy little girl.  She is becoming more and more outgoing and wanting to be involved with organized activites.  We have come a LONG way in the last year.  Maybe if I keep my fingers crossed she will evolve into a solid player like her mom.

Over the last week HL and I have been paying catch up around home.  We had the garden to finish planting, a new chicken coop to build, a pool to put up, & spending time with Makinlee.  A week ago we were sitting in the Dr’s office trying to digest the news that our fresh In Vitro cycle was being canceled.  It felt as if the rug was pulled out from under us.  We were naive enough to think that since the procedure was scheduled and no one mentioned the possible cancellation that we were good.  We were not good.  My uterine lining wasn’t good enough to justify wasting great embryos on a transfer.  The Dr said he was 99% sure it wouldn’t have worked anyway had we proceeded with the transfer.  Now we are struggling with being able to schedule a Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET) that will allow HL to be home during the painful Progesterone In Oil (PIO) shots.  This is not an easy task.  I think we are almost there with a schedule and it looks like it will be mid August before we try again but that is not set in stone yet.  I’m struggling emotionally with the fact that there are 11 “textbook” grade 5 day blasts frozen just waiting for us to figure things out.  This should have been our time, our chance but it wasn’t meant to be.  It’s hard to just sit and wait almost 3 more months but this is what must be done.  I hope the next 5 weeks fly by because then it will be time for us to go on vacation and get a much needed break from everyday life.  I do however have a ton of projects to keep me busy.  There is sewing that MUST be done, Makinlee’s bedroom to paint, duck and chicken eggs to be incubated, & the garden to be tended.  Also Makinlee is playing T-Ball and I’m helping coach.  We are busy but not busy enough to keep my mind from going to Houston and thinking about our embryos.

We got a call from the nurse late last night and said DO NOT STIM anymore.  Apparently my E2 levels went up into the 6000 in 24 hours so Dr A did not get to push me that one more day he wanted to.  Last night we took 1/2 of our HCG trigger shot and go in tomorrow morning at 8:30 for the surgery.  Fingers crossed, positive thoughts, & prayers my way please.  I hope we get 12-15 mature eggs.  That’s my goal anyway.  I’m still not sure if they are going to allow us to do the transfer next week but I hope I can keep the over-stimulation at bay and get my way.  We are going to head home one way or the other Wednesday so it will probably be then before I update again unless I come out of surgery better than expected.