Egg news

What a title! Unfortunately covering very little news ;-( Our fifth PGD attempt went well in respect of number of eggs retrieved. 19 egg were retrieved on the 3rd of September. 13 of these started to divide. However, most of them did not well in the process, and 'only' four eggs made an answer in the final HLA-test. Although statistics say that 25% of these eggs should have the rigth HLA-combination, none of the four eggs 'chose' to do so. Too bad. I got the news that there was no eggs to transfer on my birthday the 7th of September. Good news is that we can try again, maybe already within this year. We will see about that.

Both Sebastian and Marie-Louise are doing great. They are playfull, rather cheeky and most of the time in a very good mood. They make our day! Marie-Louise will move from her creche to kindergarten (within the same house, so it will probably be easy) on the 1st of December. She has already got a close friend, Mette, with whom she plays with after creche once a week, both here and at Mettes house. The two of them are having a blast together!

Sebastian is doing great in kindergarten, and is making great progress in many areas. On my birthday on Tuesday he had made me a string of beads. Tue had seen him starting off the work in kindergarten, and although Sebastians hands and fingers are still weak, and although it had taken him triple the time compared to the other kids, he finished the present and was very proud. So was the mom! And even more when I saw the card HE HAD WRITTEN WITH REAL LETTERS! "Til mor fra Sebastian" it read. Way to go Sebastian! Marie-Louise had made me a drawing of the sun. I could not have wished for better presents!

And oh yeah, I also got a piano! A beautiful black Yamaha upright piano, where I can play the pieces that I learned as a kid. It is great! The kids love it too, and pling-plongs on it the best they can ;-)

A recent picture of the two. We have a 'rule' saying that if the sun is shining they are allowed to have an icecream. Whenever I pick Sebastian and Marie-Louise up in the creche and kindergarten they look up in the sky for the 'icecream' sign. This day they hit the bingo ;-)