Intro to Tryg... Again...With Photos this Time.

Here is our son right after he was born, Monday, June 21, 2010 9:28am, and a couple other hospital photos. (Other photos are on Facebook, thanks to Auntie Amy --FYI)
We're happy to be home...a little tired, but overall we're doing really well. In fact, he is already past his birth weight! He gained 7oz in 2 days...apparently most kids gain a half an ounce to an ounce a day. Erik says, "Well, he's a Molin!" Here, I was so worried about his spitting up and concerned he wasn't keeping anything down. Well, I guess I can stop worrying about that anyway.

We love him and can't get enough of him (except maybe at 3am). At least 3 or 4 times a day either Erik or I will stop and look at each other and say, "We're parents!" or "He is just so adorable." We know we might be biased, but we do think he's pretty cute --especially for just going through a birth canal (sorry, squeamish people).

We will try to keep this up to date, but those of you with children know that you don't get a lot of time just to be on a computer. We're doing all we can to keep him fed and all three of us sleeping. We've had help, which has been wonderful. Both Grandmas and some friends have come to help make sure we're fed! Thank you!

Ok, back to feeding Tryg. Love you all. Thanks for all of your prayers!

Introducing The Newest Member Of Our Family

We are excited to announce the arrival of our son, Tryg Edward Robert Molin. He was born June 21st, 2010 at 09:28am. He is Beautiful he weighed in at 7lb 2oz 21 inches long. He is happy and healthy doing well Mindy is also doing great. We are getting used to being new parents and will be happy to introduce you to him in person shortly!

Thank you for all your prayers and support, Please continue to pray while we learn to sleep through the night :)

*****Sorry for the delay....the photos are not uploading. We're working on it! We're also trying to sleep!!

Newest Addition to the Nursery

Nope, no baby yet! We're eager for him to come now. I'm just two weeks and two days from my due date (yes, I know that due dates don't always mean anything) We're nervous and excited all at the same time. Praying and hoping that everything goes well and that we come home soon with a happy, healthy, (small) baby boy. Don't worry....we'll keep everyone posted when he comes.

But tonight was a fun surprise...we went out to dinner at Old Spaghetti Factory with my family to celebrate my dad's Birthday, which is actually tomorrow, the 9th. He's hoping for a grandson on his Birthday. I told him he'd have to take that up with the boy and that I was fine with the idea. Anyway, after dinner was over we walked them to their van and were surprised with a gift for us! My dad had refinished a dresser for the baby's room and it was in the back of the van! Now, we knew that the dresser was coming but on the way to dinner my dad tricked me by calling me to ask me to bring something from the crib so that he could match the wood color for the dresser. I told him that the crib doesn't really come apart, so I wouldn't be able to do that. Well, it was all a trick because he had already refinished it and it was with him in the van. :)

It looks great and we love it! Thank you very much dad. It matches the crib and the room very well! Oh, and Happy Birthday again!!

More Belly Pics

I just posted these on Facebook, but wanted to share them here too:

Week 33

Week 34

Week 35

We're getting there. I am currently 2 days from week 37 --the week 36 pics are still on the camera. We're getting excited (and nervous) as it gets closer!! When I turned the page of my calendar this morning, it made it all the more real!! We'll keep you posted!

The Latest in the Nursery

Here are some of the latest pictures of the little boy's nursery. It is a work in progress, but we're getting there! His name will go on the wall when we actually decide on it! We will also be adding even more polka-dots on the walls too. (We hope the poor little guy doesn't go bonkers looking at polka dots all the time!!)

Diana made this very nice quilt for us! Love it!
My co-worker, Amanda, made this diaper cake for us.
It was at my Office Shower last week. Very fun!!

Thank you very much to all our friends and family...With the showers we had, we were able to get pretty much everything on our registry and make his room complete! We have been so blessed and are so grateful for everyone's generosity!! Thank you all so much!!

Schoooools OUT for the Summer!

I'm fairly certain that title is from some 80's song that has been running through my head for the last week. Anyone else know what it is? I sure don't.

Anyway, I'm done!! Unfortunately Erik has class throughout the summer with only a short break in August. My last class for the school year was last night! My cohort went out to Old Chicago after class to just hangout and say good-bye for the summer. It was fun (except it was hard to get out of bed this morning)! Unfortunately, I still have a very large paper, called a prospectus, due in two weeks. I would like to get it off my plate SOON so I can focus on other things....hmmm...like the baby who is on his way! (due a month from this last Monday!)I don't have 'official pictures' here with me. We need to upload them off the camera. So, this is a picture from my cell phone, that I just took (with the one handed photo, I couldn't get the full image -but the belly is the most important part, right?) I'm feeling pretty large these days. I have been able to keep the weight down, but there is no doubt that I'm nine months pregnant!. Oh yeah, and my ankles are huge! I don't like it at all. In fact, I had a minor whinny breakdown last night in front of poor Erik. At least I admitted that it was happening at the time. This picture does not really give the full effect either, but you get the idea.We're excited for this little guy to make his appearance...I just don't feel ready quite yet! So, if he can hold off until I finish my paper and we get a few more baby items, like the car seat, we'll be in a much better place overall!

April Flowers Bring May Showers??

Well, it has been raining a lot here in MN these days, but I am talking about Baby Showers. It seems that this baby is being 'showered on' all this month! All the baby showers we are having happen to be in May. It's wonderful to celebrate with friends and family.

Although my camera didn't make it out of the case, here are a couple pictures from a friends and family shower that my sister hosted in Owatonna. Thank you Jana for hosting (and Bev for providing the location)!

Gift "Helpers" -my niece and 2nd cousin helped pass gifts to me
--until they got distracted :)

Little MN Twins gear all the way from FL! --Thanks Brenda
(and Margo, for the photo opp)!

We are very excited for this little guy to come and so happy that so many people are excited with us! Thank you, everyone, for all of your love, support and prayers! We are grateful for each of you!

April was a Blurrr.

So, it's going to be May tomorrow! Where did April go? Well, I know that I worked a couple of Saturdays and evenings here at Bethel and just started my final course of this school year. Unfortunately this course also introduces our "Capstone" for the master's program, which means that a lot of decisions and writing will begin during this course. I am pretty tired these days...being 8 months along now, plus the added hours at work and school. But I'll survive, right?

May is also proving to be a bit insane with at least one thing scheduled each weekend. However, I think it will be fun as we are having some baby showers! I'm looking forward to focusing a little more on the baby and also seeing friends and family this month!

Sorry there are not many pictures or exciting things to post, but there is always next time!

Love you all!

Tulips are popping up!

We promise to get a better picture later, but our Tulips have started to come up.

Yep! It was a Duck!

Our afternoon adventure started by having some photos taken at the Guthrie and near the Stone Arch Bridge. Cami Thomassen took some maternity photos of Erik and me. We can't wait to see how they turned out! Earlier this week they talked about the possibility of some rain showers today. I'm so glad that didn't happen. What a wonderful day for a photo shoot! Thanks Cami!

Then we made some homemade guacamole for a snack and settled in for the afternoon for some time to write our papers that are due this week. I set up shop on our kitchen table and tried to get motivated. As I was flipping through Facebook :-) I kept hearing a shuffling noise. I first I thought it was the dryer downstairs. Then it got louder. It was coming from the chimney! Oh no! We have a bird trapped in our chimney! I yelled for Erik when the noise got really loud. So much for paper writing...we had a bird to catch!

After getting a few ideas online, we decided to just go for it. First, Erik went next door to ask for some 'protective gear.' This is what he came up with!
After opening the flume, we realized that it was a pretty big bird and it looked a lot like a duck! We were a bit concerned that it wasn't going to be able to fit through the slats of the flume. We covered the fireplace just in case it got out on it's own. After trying to coerce it out for a while, we decided just leave it alone and see if it would come out on its own. Yep! It did! It landed in the tupperware bin we put in the fireplace. I yelled for Erik again (because we had both gone back to paper writing). He came and put the lid on the bin as fast as he could. We got a good look at it then....sure enough, it was a duck!
We took him outside and Erik pulled off the lid.
And he flew away! Fly! Be free little duck.
(you can kind of see him flying away in this picture --he's the blob in the branches on the upper right)
Well, now back to writing our papers.