Meeting them both

Yesterday I was able to "meet" the embryos. I saw pictures of them. There were two. One looks like the bubbles that come out of milk when you pour air through a straw. It looked perfect. The other one looked like cottage cheese. They call that fragmentation. Daniel was not able to be there to talk to the doctors but we had a phone conference. My mom was there because she insisted on coming even though I told her she did not have to come. Anyways, after discussing everything with the doctors, I signed some papers and then was escorted to the back room. They tell you to drink 24-32 oz of liquid before coming (2 hours before). That was the most uncomfortable part of the whole process. Anyways, they hooked me up to the ultrasound and did a mock transfer again to see how everything would go. Even though I was dilated the other day, it didnt work so well so they had to use a different kind of thing. The doc said everything went as well as any transfer could go and then I received my first ultrasound pic and was told to hang out for 20 minutes on my back. Thankfully my mom had some good stories because it was just so icky not to be able to run to the restroom. Finally the 20 minutes passed and I was able to get dressed and met with the doc one last time who gave me a pep talk/assurance that there is absolutely nothing more I can do to make everything "stick". Of course no jumping and no alcohol. Ive been avoiding that stuff like the plague the past couple weeks anyways. We ended up leaving and going to get my mom's car. You see... on her way in, the transmission on her car went out. As in she could not move forward or backwards. We called AAA and went to get it. A state trouper met us there because he was about to give a ticket. He let it slide considering the tow truck was there about a minute later. We got that situation taken care of and then went to my house for lunch. I prepared a salad with chicken, nuts, cranberries, oranges, and raspberry dressing.
After lunch, we went for some ice cream and then went car looking. We met Daniel at his store and drove some cars to get acquainted with everything. My mom has had a minivan since 1991 and now is looking for a sedan. I would say... its a whole new world! We were there for a couple hours and then came home and ate popcorn and watched tv til Dad came to pick up Mom. He was in Chicago visiting his brother who is on death's door. So this was perfect for him to travel from Raleigh to my house to then Charlotte. Of course he was exhausted. Emotionally spent but still in good spirits.
They ended up leaving after a little while and then Phillip and Diane came over for dinner. I was spent by the time they left and fell asleep while sitting up on the couch. Then I laid down and Daniel took this really really cute picture of CB and me snuggling together. So cute!!