While our kids are in Little Rock this week giving my wife some much needed rest time while on bedrest we have been getting the house ready little by little. What a blessing it is to have amazing in-laws and family to help. Last night Tamara and I went out to one of our favorite restaurants, the Market Place, where we ran into one of our favorite college girls who at this time will remain nameless although you know who you are. Anyway to make a long story short after we finished our meal we were sitting around talking just the two of us which was weird because we weren't telling anyone to stop eating paper or get your hands out of the ketchup, our college friends left wishing us a nice evening. Our waiter came by about 5 minutes later asked if we wanted anythign else and then informed us that our "friends" had picked up our check. Tamara and I were so blown away at this gesture and blessing that we just sat there stunned for a while. What an amazing thing to just have a free dinner as a blessing from a sweet college student with a huge heart. Thank you thank you for blessing us last night. I pray that we too will take advantage of an opportunity to bless someone else unexpectedly.
We go back to the doctor on Friday when we will be 34 weeks and only 3 weeks away from meeting this little girl, Sept 22nd and the countdown is on. Just to offer a little perspective on this pregnancy, Jackson had already been in the hospical for 51 of his 69 days at this point. Praise God and thank you for your prayers for this precious gift we are about to have. I told Tamara and the Lord that if he wanted me to go through the experience of Jack again with the NICE stay I could and would do because I knew he would give me the faith and strength to do so but if I was going to be trusting God and asking boldly regarding this pregnancy I have been praying that we wouldn't have to do the extended stay again. In fact the more time that goes by the more I can see the real possibility that I am probably going to get to walk out of the hospital a couple of days after she is born with my baby girl in one arm and holding my wife's hand with the other...What a great day that will be.
I will report more on Friday.
Stephen
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Friday, August 25, 2006
"What we have here is failure to communicate"
Today we went to the doctor for our weekly check on baby #3 and I am pleased to report that everything is sailing along smoothly. Everyday we wake up and Tamara is still carrying this baby girl I praise our great God in Heaven. Every Friday before we enter into the Park Hill Clinic for Women for our weekly visit with Dr. Hix my prayers are the same; "Father I pray that there is no change again today in this pregnancy but more than that I pray that I will have faith to trust you with whatever the doctor tells us. Thank you that you are in control and I am not, help me to trust You and increase my faith." When I hear those words from Dr. Hix, no change I again praise God.
Today we are in the first day of the 34th week and Monday we will be 7 weeks further along in this pregnancy than we were when we delivered Jackson, and again I praise God. At the end of our visit today, Dr. Hix wanted us to visit with the lady who schedules all the c-sections. All along we have been told that we would deliever this little girl, known by Cooper her oldest brother as Kutty (we have no idea where he got this name, but pronounced Cut-t), on the 1st day of the 37th week which calendars out to be September 15th...or so we thought. To make a long story short, we had had a misunderstanding about when the 1st day of week 37 actually is counted and now we are scheduled for a c-section on September 22nd. We have to be at the hospital at 7:15am and surgery is scheduled for 8:45am. This was a bit of a set back for Tamara today as she was worried about my birthday and Kutty's (not her real name...not sure of that yet) being on back to back days. I don't know what greater gift I could be given than the precious life of a little girl and to be reminded of God's graciousness to us every year as we share back to back birthdays. However, for those of you who know Tamara very well, this was NOT what she had in her mind.
Kutty's room is mostly done now and it is so cute. Tamara and our wonderful friend Katherine Sasser (known by our kids as Aunt Katherine because we are pretty much family) put a lot of the finishing touches on her room last night and today. It is so pink and cute that Tamara had to just walk back in there today and report that it was indeed still cute. Katherine has been amazing to bring their (Timm & Katherine) two children to our house this week to help Tamara with our kids while she is on bedrest. Katherine and Tamara are so much a like and compliment each other very well with similar taste in decorating and views on life. It is no wonder that Annie (Timm and K's oldest) and Cooper (our oldest) play so well together and love each other. All that to say Katherine has been a life saver and a blessing to be here in our home this week helping to prepare the way for baby # 3...you know, Kutty.
We are beyond excited about the arrival of baby # 3 and as of right now we are 28 days away from holding that precious little girl in our arms and meeting this gift from God with all the love we have to give. Excitement would be an understatement. I will post more as there is more to post. Thank you for your prayers and for your help in praying this little girl into this world.
love
Stephen & the rest of the Martins (Tamara, Cooper, Jackson, and little Kutty)
Today we are in the first day of the 34th week and Monday we will be 7 weeks further along in this pregnancy than we were when we delivered Jackson, and again I praise God. At the end of our visit today, Dr. Hix wanted us to visit with the lady who schedules all the c-sections. All along we have been told that we would deliever this little girl, known by Cooper her oldest brother as Kutty (we have no idea where he got this name, but pronounced Cut-t), on the 1st day of the 37th week which calendars out to be September 15th...or so we thought. To make a long story short, we had had a misunderstanding about when the 1st day of week 37 actually is counted and now we are scheduled for a c-section on September 22nd. We have to be at the hospital at 7:15am and surgery is scheduled for 8:45am. This was a bit of a set back for Tamara today as she was worried about my birthday and Kutty's (not her real name...not sure of that yet) being on back to back days. I don't know what greater gift I could be given than the precious life of a little girl and to be reminded of God's graciousness to us every year as we share back to back birthdays. However, for those of you who know Tamara very well, this was NOT what she had in her mind.
Kutty's room is mostly done now and it is so cute. Tamara and our wonderful friend Katherine Sasser (known by our kids as Aunt Katherine because we are pretty much family) put a lot of the finishing touches on her room last night and today. It is so pink and cute that Tamara had to just walk back in there today and report that it was indeed still cute. Katherine has been amazing to bring their (Timm & Katherine) two children to our house this week to help Tamara with our kids while she is on bedrest. Katherine and Tamara are so much a like and compliment each other very well with similar taste in decorating and views on life. It is no wonder that Annie (Timm and K's oldest) and Cooper (our oldest) play so well together and love each other. All that to say Katherine has been a life saver and a blessing to be here in our home this week helping to prepare the way for baby # 3...you know, Kutty.
We are beyond excited about the arrival of baby # 3 and as of right now we are 28 days away from holding that precious little girl in our arms and meeting this gift from God with all the love we have to give. Excitement would be an understatement. I will post more as there is more to post. Thank you for your prayers and for your help in praying this little girl into this world.
love
Stephen & the rest of the Martins (Tamara, Cooper, Jackson, and little Kutty)
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