Fun times with Noah

Yes, it's been a while since I have updated on Noah but time just seems to fly by in a foggy state of consciousness lately. Let see, some unusual milestones were that Noah turned over to his belly on day 6! We were so surprised and shocked to see him do this. He moves side to side a lot but we weren't expecting him to turn over this soon. He kicks all the time and every doctor he's seen says, "Gosh, he sure does have strong feet." I keep thinking I wasn't imagining all that kicking in the middle of the night when I was preggo. He just getting ready to kick that soccerball or football.

Noah had his 2 weeks check up this past Monday and I was super excited to see that he gained not just his birth weight back but a whole pound beyond it putting him at 9 pounds 2 ounces. His length was above average (21 3/4 inches) and his weight and head were average. Here are some pictures from the past 2 weeks.

Noah checking out his monkey in his playmat.

Noah enjoying his baths now, in fact, the last one put him to sleep.

Daddy couldn't resist and had to buy him his first LAPD outfit and on the back it said bombsquad.

Noah and Mama in our St. Patricks shirts. Mine is hard to see but it had a shamrock on it in rhinestones.

Our first walk

Noah and Chloe (just a 7 month difference)

Noah and Aunt Ruthie

Noah sleeping

This is nothing too exciting but we're learning how to post videos so I wanted to put it up.

Noah Alan Martinsen

Noah was born Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 6:48pm. He weighed 8 pounds and 2 ounces and is 20 inches long. We are so excited to have him home and are loving every minute with him. Here are a few of the many pictures we've taken this past week.

Noah after his first bath. He didn't enjoy it.

Noah and Grandpa
Simply adorable
Noah and Daddy

Our family
Someone, please take care of me :)
Hooray! We're going home!

The grand induction

Yes, that's right, Alan and I will be going to the hospital for an induction tonight. After a week and a half of doctor pleading we are going in to have our baby. It's been a stressful decision-making week for me because I was hoping I wouldn't have to do an induction. The doctors found that I'm mildly preclamtic on Tuesday and have been recommending that I go to the hospital and deliver. The Tuesday before that they found my blood pressure was high and sent me to the hospital last Friday. With much pleading I was able to get them to let me go home after being in the hospital for 5 hours. But once they found out I'm preeclamtic they've been hounding me since. I didn't want to do an induction because the chances of a caesarian are much higher and it's going to be quite a process just to put my body into labor since it's not quite ready yet.

The doctor who will be delivering the baby, Dr. Yuan, called me today and put some of my nerves at ease. She is the best at Henry Mayo and is very considerate. We couldn't be having a better doctor to deliver so God truly is blessing us in that way. Anyway, if you read this blog today, pray that all goes smoothly. My next post will be all about our new baby boy!

Pregnancy Pictures- 36 weeks!

Today Alan and I went to get pictures taken after church to document this fun stage in our lives. Here are our favorite pictures that were taken. Tonight we're going to Ruth's Chris for dinner (our favorite) to celebrate and make the most of our last few weeks of "just us." We will miss it but are super excited about our pending new addition.

Renae's wedding

Last weekend one of my sisters, Renae, got married. The rain held out for the wedding and the sun came out just in time for the ceremony to begin. It was in San Juan Capistrano at the Crystal Cathedral's retreat center called Rancho Capistrano. Our camera died just after the ceremony so we only have pictures from the rehersal and ceremony. Let's just say the pictures of me are not my favorite as I was sick with a sinus cold and super swollen. Renae looked beautiful and the whole ceremony and reception went great. Congrats Renae and Todd!

PLEASE PRAY!!

Friends and Family,

Please pray for our friends Scott and Andrea Sward. They lost their one year old son, Isaac, today from a horrible car accident that happened yesterday morning. Andrea is in intensive care as she has many serious injuries and Scott has internal injuries as well. The Sward's left California a few months ago for Denver, Colorado to prepare to go on the mission field in Cambodia. Please pray for them and their families as they have extreme tough times ahead of them. I can't imagine the devastation they must be and will be going through. Pray for Andrea as she is still in intensive care and fighting to stay alive. Pray for Scott that he can be strong for both him and Andrea as he learned that his son died this morning and is trying to be in the ICU with Andrea as much as possible. God allows these things to happen but sometimes it's so hard to see why. For more information on the Sward's go to this web site: http://www.friendschurchsw.org/swardupdate.html

33 weeks

33 weeks! Just 7 more to go.

Arrgg!! I can't seem to format the pictures correctly. These are supposed to go below the next post. I need someone to show me how to format pictures because it seems like I've tried everything and I can't figure it out. First these accidently deleted from my post below so I was going to add them in but they wouldn't go where I wanted them and so I thought I just add them in a different blog below but they keep going to the top. I'm so frusterated!! Read the post below first and then these pictures will make sense.

Baby Shower

First off, I know I had said I'd update a long time ago and didn't. Life has been busy and I just haven't been motivated to blog lately. However, much has been going on so I figure it's time to update.


Baby is doing great- kicking me like crazy. Every now and then I have to push a hand or foot back into place because he really likes to stretch. Last week I went back to work from winter break and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The first three days I had energy and then Wednesday hit and I was exhausted. Thursday I rebounded and then by Friday afternoon I was spent.


I realized last week I've been having contractions for the past few weeks. I had just thought it was the baby moving and pushing my belly forward to make it really tight. But then I was reading and found out that they are precontractions that you can't feel except for the tightness.

Saturday, Alan and I went to an all day labor and deliver class which totally freaked me out! I think I was better off not knowing what is to come :) I'm excited to meet our baby but not looking forward to the labor part. I keep thinking if I make it worse in my mind it won't be as bad in reality. I hope it works.

Saturday evening my mom and sisters came out for my baby shower on Sunday. We went out to dinner at Stone Fire and then to Mimi's for dessert and then we went to go see, "Juno." The movie was very matter of fact and really displays the reality of teenage pregnancies. We all enjoyed it.


Sunday was my baby shower with friends from church, Master's and family. It was a lot of fun and we all really enjoyed it. My best friend, Julie, gave a devotional and we ate and opened gifts. One of my roomates from college, Abby, surprised me and came to the shower. She moved to Colorado a few months ago and was in California visiting family in Turlock. She and her mom, Pam, and her daughter, Chloe drove down from Turlock Sunday morning to come to the shower. I was so surprised because I had forgotten she was in California and didn't expect her to come to the shower.

Abby, Cloe and Pam

Julie, Chloe ( Abby's daughter) and me

Food and cake tables

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, everyone! Okay so you'd think that since I've been blogging for a few years I'd remember how to upload pictures in order but for some reason every time I upload a ton of pictures I always end up forgetting to upload the last ones first and then it messes up the story. Oh well, these pictures are once again, in backwards order.

Alan and I spent Christmas with my family this year. Everyone came out to Oceanside and it was fun to all be together since it doesn't happen very often anymore. Alan and I arrived Christmas Eve in time for the festivities to begin. Everyone was there and Todd, Renae's fiance, parents arrived about the same time along with my Dad and his fiance, Sharon. Ted, my mom's man friend came too so it was a full house!! We had a Christmas Eve dinner of prime rib, salad, mashed potatoes and chocolate cake. Alan and I did our traditional white elephant gift exchange where we provide all the white elephant gifts (they're actually provided by my adorable loving students from a few days before :0 ). I can only store so many candles, lotions, necklaces, candy, etc so my family or Alan's family always get a kick out of what they get from my students. I'll go through some pictures and then catch up on the events below.

Dec. 27

This is what happens when you have 10 + people staying in a house with poor plumbing and meant for about 5 people. My mom didn't have a plunger so the boys went out to go get one and fix the problem. Scott and Alan made Chris do the dirty work. Chris obviously didn't want anything to come back up at him so he stood in the bathtub as he plunged.

Jack was the highlight of the trip and much attention was given to him. He is definetly a typical toddler boy. Here we are playing in the backyard just before they leave to go home.

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Dec 26 (Boxing Day- holiday in Australia)

The day after Christmas some of us went to the San Diego Zoo. When we were kids we would have passes to the San Diego Zoo and go all the time with our grandparents and parents. It was fun to go again especially with Jack who loves to see all the animals. Alan and I hadn't been for about 8 years.

Chris and Alan are putting on their monkey faces- can you tell a difference?

Our row at the Sea Lion and Otter show

Opps! I just deleted 2 pictures as I was writing about them in post. Oh well, one was Alan on the sky fare above the park and the other was Chris and Alan with a huge camel. Maybe I will post those pictures later.
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Dec. 25- Christmas Day

Christmas Day consisted up getting up, opening stocking and gifts, watching Jack play with his toys, the guys went surfing, eating, watching the sun set at the beach and going to see National Treasure. Our main meal was Mexican food- tamales, enchiladas, rice, salad, etc. Two of my uncles came over and a family friend came too. At sunset some of us went of over to the beach in front of my Dad's condo to watch the sunset and then Ruth, Chris, Dad, me and Alan went to see National Treasure. It was a fun movie

Jack opening up another train item. He loves his trains and milk :)

Jack and his lawn mower- training him early.

At the beach, in front of Dad's place. Chris and Alan threw the frisbee and Jack played in the cold puddles.

Uncle Alan and Jack playing the piano for everyone :)

Well, that's about it for now. I've been writing forever and I'm ready to go do something else now so I'll update on the baby later today or tomorrow. All is good.

Renae's bridal shower

One of my sister's, Renae, is getting married in February so last night I went to one of her bridal showers. It was in San Clemente, which is about an hour and a half from where I live. The first picture is the Tyndall girls, my mom to the left, me, Renae and then Ruth to the right. The house the shower was at overlooked the ocean. To say the least, it was beautiful! I arrived just in time for the sun to set and so we took a few pictures. They weren't my favorite pictures because I look like a butterball turkey but nonetheless it's a picture of us. Instead of gifts we each brought an ornament for their tree next year and gave $$ to the money tree. Renae and Todd aren't registering so it was fun to do a different gift item than the usual registery gift.

Gobble Gobble

This year I cooked my first turkey and all the fun stuff that goes along with it. Alan had to work Thanksgiving evening so we decided to stay close to home and have our own Thanksgiving dinner/lunch instead of driving the 2 hours south to where my family lives. Thanksgiving evening I was able to visit Alan at his new station and he showed me around. The turkey came out good, not great, but good. We had lots of left overs and are all turkied out.

This is a picture of me yesterday. My belly is getting bigger and bigger. We are getting ready for him and have already moved furniture around. The office is now in our bedroom and our garage can no longer be used to park the car because of all the stuff that is sitting in there now. I need to go through a lot of it and reorganize it into the closets. The office looks nice in our room. I thought it would look like there's too much furniture but it actually fits in well. After getting organized it'll be time to paint and then get some baby furniture. I haven't had any leg cramps for a few weeks (knock on wood) so it has been a nice break. My belly is starting to get uncomfortable and will only continue to do so. I have to turn sideways to wash the dishes now.

23 weeks and baby clothes

What a blessing! I have a parent of a student in my class who in done having kids and her last one was a boy whose now 18 months. She was so kind and gave me 2 big tubs full of baby boy clothes. She said she was going to get rid of them anyway and thought of me to give them too. Alan and I had a ton of fun pulling clothes after clothes out of the tubs. It seemed like Mary Poppins purse where more and more just kept coming out of them or the feeding of the 5000 when the fish didn't stop coming. We ended up filling 3 trash bags full when we were done. We don't have any baby furniture yet so we're storing it all in the closet in bags. Thank you, Mrs. Walker!!




This is me this week at 23 weeks. I look huge in this picture. Some days I look bigger than other days. It must of been what I was wearing. Today I had my 24 weeks check up and the nurses eyes opened really big when we heard the heartbeat. He has a fast one! He moves a ton too. Last month, the ultrasound technician had an hard time getting pictures of him because he was moving so much. Alan and I are pretty mellow people but I have a gut feeling we're going to have an active one :)

Facebook

Okay, so I finally buckled down and joined facebook. Let me know if you are a member too so I can add you as a friend.