Lately, the weather has been bad to do anything. First Noah got sick on Halloween weekend, so he missed this candy collecting event. He still got some here at home but missed out on walking around. Here are some pictures to see full size you can click on it and will take you to our Flickr page.

Noah’s interests right now:
TV: Cars, Jungle Junction, Backyardigans, Curious George, Finding Nemo. Sesame Street characters Elmo and Grover.
Toys: Cars anything. mostly diecast toys
Books: Anything colorfull but mostly Elmo and Grover
Music: Little Einstein, Lady Gaga, Pitbull’s calle 8 (Rumba), Black Eyed Peas’ “I got a feeling”
Snacks/Candy: M&M’s, Raisins, Poky, gummy bears, Steamed apples, peach flavored Jello.
Favorite word to say: No!
Favorite activities: Giving momma gray hairs because of his climbing everywhere, and jumping off.

Tags: influenza,Sick,Halloween,rain

It's been too long since momma wrote anything! Omar and I both agree that February was a super crazy month....and it went by so fast. We will say it was a very important month though. Our Noah turned 1! He had mastered walking by eleven months. By his one year he also had ten teeth, currently he is getting four more....which will make it 14 teeth by thirteen months! He actually got his first two teeth in by four months...which is actually pretty early. For his one year checkup he was 25 pounds and 31" tall. Our baby grew almost an inch a month! Crazy!



On Noah's actual birthday, daddy was able to take a day off and we spent the whole day with our baby and spoiled him! We got a visit from cousin Maya and Dayton that morning - and they brought him a gift...thank you! Then it was off to the Seattle Aquarium! Luckily it was sunny, still a little windy by the water, but overall couldn't have for a better day. Noah enjoyed walking around and exploring. Afterwards, we went to have fish and chips on the pier....where Noah was all smiles! That evening, Noah got his homemade mini cake - with his little baby cookie monster on top. Noah enjoyed his day we hope....oh and had his cake too! We had a great day as a family!




Birthday party was great. Noah was a bit shy at first but warmed up at the end. We rented out a little place since our place is way too small for our family. The theme was Sesame Street, first birthday. Ohh, and of course Omar dressed his little man so handsome!



I am so grateful for my little boy and his daddy! We have been blessed with our Noah and all the laughs and smiles he gives us everyday. We love watching him grow and learn so much, he's is our sweet little angel. I'm sure I forgot a lot of things...but I'll write more later.
Cindy

Tags: birthday,Noah,news

Noah has ventured to take his first steps on his own, Still not walking but looks like he's getting the courage to start walking. He is also repeating words on command, he's saying Elmo, Apple, and other two silable words. More to come...

Tags: Noah,Walking,Talking

Since our last posting, we have been busy with Noah, his top teeth are coming out and he's been really needy. We are making his food every weekend for the week. still loving his apples, "peaches up in here". Last week he tried lentils for the first time. I made them the way my mom used to make them for us when we were little. We processed them and put them through a sifter to get rid of the skin. He loved it.

Noah is 5 monts today in about 18 minutes, and at short of 5 months he's already made daddy proud more than once. Today as he was playing with momma, he said Dadda! We heard it and encouraged to keep saying and he kept repeating. We were very proud of our boy. Momma was sad but happy, she was proud of our boy too.

Tags: Daddy,Noah,First Word

We are doing OK, after Cindy getting sick, I got sick then Noah got sick, he's still with belly aches. We went to the doctor and expect that Noah gets better by Saturday. We haven't been able to do anything because of the weather. It keeps raining, no sun yet. I am curious if there will be any this summer. Anyway, I hope we do. Hello to every one. Please write to us to say hello or at least to know that you are checking our site.

Omar, Cindy and Noah.
www.omcino.com

On Thursday afternoon, we went to Noah's one month checkup. It was with a new clinic and doctor, but his doctor is a really nice lady. Noah is doing very well...as mom and dad figured. We were thinking he had probably reached 11lbs...in fact he's almost reached 12lbs! He has gained about a total of 3lbs since being released from the hospital on February 14. He lost almost a whole pound in the first days after he was born...but it was only eleven percent so it wasn't anything startling. He has also grown in length! He is now 22 inches...he was born 21. Both mommy and daddy are happy with their big boy! I love the smiling he is doing when he looks at us.

Tags: Noah,doctor,hospital,Checkup

Today as I was at work i opened my email and there it was, this picture that made my day go even faster. I look forward to more of these.

Tags: Smile,Noah,Photo

We went to the doctor this morning and found out he doesn't have diarrhea, we were just worried. Dr. said it is normal, nothing to worry about. They did draw blood from him again, PKU test. This is required by the state of Washington, Phenylketonuria, or PKU for short, is an inherited, genetic condition in which the body can’t process phenylalanine (Phe), an amino acid found in many foods. This excerpt comes from the PKU website
According to the nurse in 30 years she's done that test she has known about only one case that tested positive. This is completely treatable thus the need for the test.

More pictures...

Tags: baby,news,Noah,diarrhea,doctor,Washington state,PKU

We noticed loose stool this morning, very little on the diaper but later he had another light loose stool. This is the third one that he got and was alot. We found out that it was some apples that Cindy ate, they gave baby Noah a mild diarrhea. He's eating just as well but we are keeping an eye out for dehydration. We are monitoring his temperature and have an appointment with the doctor tomorrow morning at 8 am. He looks like a happy boy and we are making sure he's OK. We found some articles about this on www.Babycenter.com and the exact article is here.
Noah smiles and eats as normal.

Tags: Loose stool,diarrhea,Noah,Baby Center,Family,Food

Dear friends and family,

Cindy and I would like to introduce you to our new baby boy, Noah Zeferino Alvarado.  We are very excited to have him here as he has filled our lives with even more joy and smiles already.  The whole family is doing well, if you want to keep up to date with our lives check our blog for new updates and pictures. You are welcome to post your comments on the blog or email us. 

Thank you all for your well wishes.

The Alvarado's.



Omar, Cindy and Noah Alvarado

www.cindyandomar.com

Tags: Noah,Zeferino,Alvarado,baby,announcement

We are going to head out to the hospital in about 15 minutes. We are to be there at 10:00. We are having a quick breakfast and get there. We had a good night sleep, no need for Cindy to take the sedative in case she couldn't We will be back with a baby. To enter the live section of this website text my cell phone to get a password and login.

Tags: baby,hospital,news,birth,Seattle,group health,Capital hill,Cindy

We are back at home. After monitoring for about 4 hours the midwife sent us home. There are no contractions so she gave us an appointment for 10:00 AM tomorrow unless anything happens. It is about 15% of women whose water break before the contractions start and about 75% of those women have their baby within 24 hours.
Baby looks healthy, momma looks healthy but tired. We are going to try to sleep tonight and get ready for tomorrow. It may be a long day. I will not be updating this site because I will not have access to it but follow my Twitter here I will be sending updates constantly.

Tags: baby,pregnancy,Family,hospital

We are on our way to the hospital to have her checked. No Contractions yet but we will wait and see. Keep checking in.

Tags: Cindy,baby,news,birth

Today we had our visit to the midwife, she told us everything is great. Baby is in position and with the head down (where it should be).

Momma's progress:
She's very tired, and still taking baths to soothe the pain on her hips and pelvis. She's hungry as a hippo, and eats all my strawberries. She gained 3 pounds since the last visit. Although she lost 2 last week to stomach problems. She's dialated about 1 cm. but there aren't any signs of baby coming.

Baby's progress:
He keeps moving and kicking momma, he's very active all day and night. He likes for Daddy to read to him every night He's getting big by the minute.

Daddy's progress: He's growing more and more anxious to see his mini me. He keeps dreaming of him and day dreaming even at work. Getting ready for the sleepless nights to come.

After our appointment we went to REI to pick up an order from back in December but found that it had been returned to the distribution center. We got refunded anyway. Cindy got hungry and wanted to go to Cheese Cake Factory. We shared a plate and came home. It's only Wednesday....

Tags: baby,Family,news,pregnancy,midwife,group healt

Baby Bear is almost here, we are all dreaming about him. My dad had a dream he got in a fight with his cousin because he dropped baby bear in the water. Mom (Alvarado) dreamed that she had a nursery ready for the baby. Fatima also dreamed him. My sister Yuri also dreamed a light dimpled baby.

Momma (Cindy) has been feeling contractions and her feet are getting swollen. She has been feeling lots of pressure on her pelvis area, she takes baths every night to lower the pressure. Cindy keeps waking up during the night because of discomfort sleeping. She can hardly move around.
We had an appointment last Thursday, baby is ready and on the right position. He's been very active when I read him stories every night. We got him a few books and we read to him in Spanish and English.

Tags: pregnancy,baby,omar,Cindy

I have decided to maintain only one website, and still have information and still keep the old www.oalvarado.com. This site will redirect to the www.cindyandomar.com. I will still keep the domain just to make sure I capture both.

Tags: Site,move,www.oalvarado.com

So since yesterday's scare we did a lot of work we finally packed for momma. A little suitcase with the essentials for the delivery. Toiletries, robe, and a change of clothes for the way back home. We also purchased some more clothes and hats for the baby. We will have a live birthday broadcasted the day of the birth. (I hope I remember the camera).
If you want to get the password and login information send us an email or sign up for updates here.

Tags: baby,Cindy,pregnancy

Hey everyone!
We hope that you all have a great end of year and that the new one begins just as good. We are just getting ready for our baby to arrive. We have had many blessings this year and 2008 looks just as promising.
Baby Alvarado gave us a bit of a scare this week, we had to spend about 8 hours in the hospital. Cindy got contractions and the midwife asked us to bring her into the maternity hospital. They were monitoring baby and mom and they are both now good. She got medicine and baby Bear still kicking just as strong and stronger every day. He loves oranges, we have had more oranges in the past months than I have had in years.

Tags: hospital,baby,new year,midwife,maternity,bear

Thank you all for a great year, we are very happy you have been with us in every happy moment of our new life.
Thanks to the help and support we accomplished one of our most important events of our lifes. We got married and are now extremely happy to receive our first little bundle of joy A.K.A Bear. We are expecting to have a healthy baby on February 14th, 2008. Most of the baby stuff is ready but we keep going to the birthing classes every Tuesday. We are spending our holidays with our immediate families and will make sure to make a feast out of their traditional Mexican food.

Feliz Navidad!

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Tags: Family,pregnancy,news,Noah,23 weeks

After battling a real bad cold for over two weeks, I have finally started feeling better. My husband has taken great care of me and little baby every day. We went to dinner last night for our six year dating anniversary. We stayed in the local area to have dinner because it was Sunday and we both had to work early on Monday. We ate at Red Lobster and the food was good, but suprisingly service was a little slow - other than that we had a great dinner ...all three of us!

Tags: Family,Food,dinning,anniversary

This week, was a better week for Momma, she has been getting better from her cold but still coughing, she's starting to be unconfortable when sleeping because there are only so many ways she can sleep. This week was check up week, the doctor says baby Alvarado is doing really good, they listened to his heart and the Midwife says he's got a healthy one.
This week has been full of parties. First on Thursday Dayton turned 2, he had a cake with the Lopez' side. Baby Alvarado was really happy during the party. He was kicking with the noise of all the kids running around.

Momma's belly keeps groing, she's eating well and also resting alot. We spend time trying to feel little Bear kicking, this is so exciting when he responds to our voices.

Tags: Family,baby,news

Well it was about time we set up a page for our little one.
At this point we are on our 22nd week. It has been pretty special, coming back from California we have had more time to rest and make sure little is received with the most love possible.
We will try to keep the rest of the pregnancy updates, pictures and news. here at least once a week trough the pregnancy and beyond.

Tags: baby,Family,pregnancy

Hello Family and Friends! 
 
We hope that everyone is doing well.  Since it is hard to keep in touch with each and everyone of you on a more regular basis, we decided to send an email to everyone.    
 
I'm sure a few of you haven't believed my(Cindy) recent weight gain for an early jump start to holiday weight!    ;)  Others have probably had ideas but have not wanted to say anything.  So…we wanted to clear things up and share the great news!   Omar and I wanted to announce that we are pregnant! :)
 
A few of you may have already known, but we wanted to wait until the end of the first trimester to tell you all.   We can't wait to find out if we will have a boy or a girl.   An ultrasound in a few weeks will hopefully let us know.  We heard the baby's heartbeat a few weeks ago and it sounds real strong. We are due in late February and can't wait for our first baby to come into this world!  
 
As most of you know, we had a website for our wedding.  We are currently updating that so that all of you can check it out and see our progress over the upcoming months.  
 
Now we don't have to be shy about our holiday pounds – Daddy included!!  Ha ha!   ;)
 
We wish everyone the best and please keep in touch! 
 
The Alvarado's :)

Tags: Family,wedding

We have started a new blog that, is not related to the wedding. We have started a new website from scratch. The old website will still be available as a link within this website but will not be the main focus of the website. Please keep checking as we will have more stuff added to this site as we can.

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