Embryo Day 4 - July 25

I feel like time has stood still. I can't believe that it's only been 2 days since the embryo transfer... it feels like a week has passed by already...

I spent a few hours downloading French cartoons for school and pulled out some of my resources to plan my LA program for most of the morning yesterday. Then I watched some TV and worked on my cross stitch. I went to Costco and T&T with my mom last night and told her that I was carrying an embryo. She immediately told me what I could and couldn't eat! So much for indulging myself with tropical fruit... =)

Today, my hubby and I are going to make chicken wellington. We had great success making salmon wellington on Thursday night so we thought we'd be a bit creative to make use of our left over pastry and salmon mousse and mushroom duxelle. My husband had salmon wellington for the first time 2 weeks ago at the Cannery and he found the recipe on their webpage. So if you love salmon in a puff pastry with pinot noir sauce, this is the dish for you!

Our embryo should be at the 12-16 cell stage. I have been enduring periodic abdominal cramps since egg retrieval on Tuesday. The nurses told me it would be OK to take Tylenol for pain relief, but I figured that it would be best if lay off any meds unless it becomes excruciatingly painful.

I haven't done much today. It's really too hot to go for a walk mid day, maybe later tonight.

Our parrot fish has been acting strange. We originally had a pair of parrot fish and 2 palm bichers. After 2 weeks, the parrot fish lay eggs and the 2 of them became very aggressive! They killed my 2 bichers... =( We decided to give away one of the parrot fish to stop the egg laying. She's been fine for the last 3 months until yesterday... She has been standing up to the arowana, is digging up the rock base and trying to kick out all the fish who live in the log cave. It looks like she wants to lay eggs, but why? She has no mate!!!

My husband is leaving for work in the US tomorrow morning for 10 days. I'm thinking about what I will do to pass the time on my own...