Introducing myself-Noah William Gamblin

Hello world, you don't know I am here yet unless you are familiar with the house where I live at the moment. However I am very real to my Mommy Anita where I am presently residing. I have been alive for 5 months now or there abouts and its a pretty comfortable life. I am letting my grandmother be my ghost writer.. its kind of hard to get to a computer where I am at the moment.

My mommy Anita and my Daddy Nick began to think about having another member in the Nick and Anita Gamblin family back in January when they went to visit in Ecuador when my cousin Luke had been born. As Daddy Nick held little Luke Anita a played with Jared their hearts longed for someone like me to fill their hearts.

So in May when Mommy and Daddy were celebrating their fourth anniversary, I came on the scene. They didn't know I was there, but I was. My heart was beating almost before they left the place that they were staying, and my cells were multiplying.

So it was in late May on a weekend in Melbourne that they took the pregnancy test with them and they waited to see if I really existed or not. By then I had been growing for a whole month and then some. So they waited for the words to form on the little window of the tester. When the words pregnant came through clearly there was a lot of rejoicing in that house. I am the first Gamblin grandchild..but the third for the Cobb clan. Then on a Sunday night in June, my mommy Anita and my Daddy Nick called my other grandparents in Guatemala to tell them the good news.

Mommy and Daddy hadn't announced that I was coming.. but on June the 4th they went to the doctor and they did the first ultra sound where they realized that I indeed was there. They still didn't know if I was a boy or a girl. My mom sure did get up a lot during those days.. I felt like I was on a roller coaster at times.. I would just settle down and she would have to get up and go to the bathroom.

On June 6th they heard my heart beat for the first time at the doctor's office and my Dad was so proud of me that he recorded my heart beat on his cell phone, and played it for whoever would listen...

he was so excited.Only the family knew of my existence and a few friends.

My cousins arrived from Ecuador in July .. Jared and Luke with their parents of course. That Sunday July 5th Nick announced to the whole church at the Rock that I existed. They clapped and cheered.. can you believe it?..July 6th I was posted on Facebook so many other people would know I was coming in January as well. Here in this picture, Mommy Anita was not the only one who was expecting.. so was my Auntie Chrissy. That cousin definitely exists.. we just don't know is she is a girl or if he is a boy.

Me, what was I doing all this time?... taking it easy.. sleeping a lot, but hearing my mommy and my daddy in their world. When they first saw me with the ultra sound I was so asleep that no amount of poking could wake me up. I was so comfortable lying there floating around. Its warm, sometimes not so quiet with my mommy's stomach noises and her heart beat but those noises rock me to sleep. My mommy's heartbeat makes me feel safe and secure.

In the middle of that my mommy was worried about a job.. she wondered if she would get one and perhaps second to the rejoicing of me existing there was great rejoicing when Mommy got her job teaching 4th graders. I can hear their voices around her all day long, although I sleep a lot.

So September 3rd my Daddy and my mommy found out I was a boy. Mommy Anita and Daddy Nick called my "Mimi" and my "Papi" to tell them that a Gamblino was inded on the way. It wasn't too long that they had decided to name me Noah (which means peaceful or provider of comfort) William (which means resolute protector or noble spirit)

I am really getting more active as I grow. My Mommy Anita says that I really get active in the afternoon sometimes. My grandmother says that I am a fearfully and wonderfully made. I am in that secret place and God sees me as I develop. Even before I make my appearance all my days have been planned ahead of time for me and written in His book. (Psalm 139:14-16). I am a blessed baby!