NOT pregnant, thankfully!

So much happening around our house since I last posted! Zachary has recovered fully from his swine flu, other than the occasional lingering cough. The Tamiflu was obtained the 1st day of his symptoms, and it just kicked the swine flu's butt! Lucas, Casey and I managed to avoid it all together so far (knocking on wood as I type this), or else it was so mild that we didn't even realize we had it!

We took the boys to the pumpkin patch for their 1st pumpkin patch experience! They LOVED it! The patch had so many things to entertain them...a little kiddie corn maze, a corn box (much like a sand box, only filled with corn kernels), a bunch of troughs with water pumps to race ducks down the troughs, PIG races (neither Casey nor myself had seen those before either), a cow train (cars painted like cows, and pulled around the field by a tractor), a giant air pillow to bounce around on, a slide, horse rides, hay rides, pumpkin patch...you name it, it was there! The only drawback was the freaking wind...we froze our butts off that day!!!

Lucas was a boxer for Halloween this year, and Zachary was a dragon. They looked adorable, and both had a ball trick or treating. It only took a couple of houses for Zach to get the hang of it, then he'd run down the sidewalk saying, 'next door, trick or treat, mommy'. Too cute! They didn't do the usual trick or treat option at HP this year, because swine flu was rampant in the area at the time, so we just hit up a few of the neighbors houses. The 'grim reapers house' down the street was their favorite spooky house! And only one managed to scare Lucas (of course Zach wasn't the least bit afraid of it though)...it had a giant rock speaker that a man was talking on, with creepy music playing LOUDLY, and then when he answered the door he was a mime and didn't talk. Lucas told me that we wouldn't be going back to that house next year...however he has since changed his mind and told me that it's not that scary really! ; )

I have had a strange week. Friday morning I woke up feeling like I was pregnant, the test said negative, but it has been forever since I had a cycle. So at my normal annual visit with my OB/GYN on Monday I told him about these strange symptoms, and begged for him to assure me that even though I felt like it, I wasn't pregnant. And he did! He said that this is all likely from a retained corpus luteum, which has resulted in a small cyst on my right ovary. The corpus luteum normally goes away and stops producing progesterone once an egg passes thru the ovary unfertilized. However, whether this happened or not, the little boogger is confused and decided to hang around and keep producing progesterone (as if there was a fertilized egg present)...thus producing the wonderful symptoms of pregnancy (REALLY sore breasts and ALL day long nausea, that just gets worse as the evening approaches). So, to try and couteract all of this, I get the privilege (this is of course heavily laced with sarcasm) of taking high dose progesterone (400mg of Prometrium), which makes my boobs hurt even more, kicks my butt, and REALLY makes me want to hurl, for 10 days. This is all in the hopes that when I stop taking the progesterone the withdrawal will trick the little boogger into thinking I'm not pregnant, and thus reward me with a cycle. However, it MAY NOT work, and then it's back to the drawing board, and more than likely a bit of a waiting game. I can do it, so long as I don't continue to feel like this! And of course I'm beyond words THRILLED that it's not because I'm preggo! : )

This weekend is the big Vandals vs Broncos football game, and so of course we're having a football party here at the house. I soooooo LOVE to host parties...and this seemed as good as an excuse as any. The Vandals have been kicking some serious butt lately, and the Broncos, even though they are undefeated thus far, aren't playing all that great. So we're at least hopeful that the Broncos won't kill the Vandals as they have for many years now. GO VANDALS!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyways, I'll hopefully be back next week to keep this ball rolling.