New House and Growing Boy

 Once again, I am the worst Mommy Blogger in the world. I guess I will never make money off of my blog and I think I am okay with that. We are still in Boise and doing well. We just moved into our new house a week ago and are starting to get settled. It is still quite messy, but gradually I feel like it is becoming more of a home. LJ turns 11 months this week. This last month has been full of "hi's" and "bye's", kisses, cruising along all of the furniture (still stubborn and doesn't want to walk even though he is quite capable- he's been pulling himself to standing for the last 4 1/2 months), hi fives, crawling very quickly, screaming louder than most, and keeping me and Llyr very happy. We are so lucky to have this crazy and very special boy in  our lives.

Llyr is into the heart of his first semester at BSU in the MBA program. It is going well and he is staying very busy. He works as support staff for the Executive MBA program and has at least 20 hours of work each week on top of his schooling. I am working for my Uncle Mark, the sports med doc. It is going well. He is moving clinics come December and so I am in the process of applying and getting myself ready to move too. I hope that it all works out. I love being home with my baby as much as I can be and so I hope I still can do it with a new employer. I'm sure it will all work out, but I just have my mommy worries.

Below is a quick update through photo.

On October 12, 2013 we went to Logan so the boys could go to the USU vs BSU football game. We met my sister Sunni and her family, Melissa and Dallin, and even Grandma, Aunt Trisha and cousins Jadyn and Janie made it. LJ loved his cousin Xander. Xander didn't love it so much.

LJ loves his Uncle Tucker. While wait for our house to finish we lived with Mom and Dad Williams. This was a common occurrence to have LJ try to interrupt Tuck while doing his homework and we all know that Tucker probably doesn't need the distractions, but it's hard to help yourself when you have a cute baby tugging on you to come and play. 

We have come to find out that LJ, now turning 11 months this week, loves eating apples whole. Those 4 beaver teeth that he has are great for gnawing away at the apple. He grabbed one out of the fruit basket and started eating before I even noticed.

A picture of Mom and LJ when he is 10 months old.

Happy Halloween!!! Rarrrr, says the cutest lion in the world. It is his first and we loved showing him of to grandmas and grandpas.

Just a quick shot of my crazy sleeper. This is how I found him when I checked him this morning for his nap.

Here is our new little abode. It is finally painted an appropriate color and not the Carolina Blue from before, Go Tarheels! We are really starting to like it and I think we will even more once we get more settled.

Boisean's

I'm not quite sure if that is how you spell it, but we are now residents of Idaho once again. Woohoo. It is nice to be back home and be near family. My official last day of work at the University Orthopaedic Center was August 6th. It was bitter sweet. We really enjoyed our time in SLC, except the traffic. We met a lot of great friends and had great opportunities with our jobs. We were blessed. We were so blessed, in fact, that my boss and his sweet wife let us stay at their home for the last week when we were homeless. (Our lease ended on July 31, 2013 and I needed to stay at work through August 6th). We had a lot of fun there, especially the baby. He was spoiled, just like he is everywhere we go.

We made it to Boise August 7th and then on the 8th thru the 11th, went to McCall, ID with Llyr's parents and had a very relaxing time. I started work here in Boise on August 14th and Llyr started orientation for school on August 19th. We are living with my parents until our house is finished at the end of October.

A lot of change is happening and I wish that I was more articulate and able to express my feelings through words. Change is good and I have always enjoyed change, but it is difficult as well knowing that we will never be back to where we were. That part of our lives is now only a memory. I just need to be better about documenting our memories so we can have them even after they are passed. My goal is to write more often to have these written down for the future.

LJ is now 8 1/2 months old and is cruisin all over the place. He is still scooting on his tummy with an awesome army crawl. He is pulling himself to standing and that happened right as we were leaving our apartment, so probably July 31st. He is getting better at falling too, which is helpful to prevent the tears that come with bonking his head. He has also cut both top front teeth. The first one came through in McCall on August 9th and the second one started to come then and was bubbling, but didn't come through until yesterday, August 20th. He has been miserable and we have felt it. He is sleeping like poo! I sure hope that it gets better, but he's so cute that I can't get upset with him.

Here are just a few pictures to document our last month or so.

Looking cool in the sunglasses from Grandma and Grandpa C.

He also got this awesome Cowboy hat!!!

Oh yea, by the way, my cool little sister got married July 26th to Dallin Erickson, my new bro in law. They are a great couple and we are so excited for them. I will get some pictures of the bride and groom and get a post put together for the wedding. It turned out great and they are happy so far, a month later.

The 3 cutest members of the wedding party!

6 months old and counting down to Boise

So Llyr Jr. is now six months old. He started scooting around about two weeks ago, but has really started moving this week. He is also now sitting up and that started about two weeks ago, but the last couple of days he has not toppled hardly at all.

Today at church he was all over the place during Sunday School chasing his ball. While doing that he crawled under chairs, found purses to lick and never stopped wiggling. He even crawled up to another baby in the ward who is about two or three weeks older than Little Llyr and he got really close to his face, so the other baby did what only makes sense, lick LJs forehead. He is becoming such a great and fun little man. I am grateful every day that he's mine.

We are moving to Boise in about six weeks. Time has really flown by, but we are getting more excited every day. We should find out more about my job and our house in this next week. We are going to live with my folks while the house finishes, but we are so glad that both grandparents are there. He is the luckiest baby alive. Llyr will start school the middle of August and can hardly wait. He only has two more weeks of work here in Salt Lake and then he'll get to be stay-at-home dad until we move. I think the two Llyr's are going to have too much fun.

Almost 5 months

I know it has been a long time for a post. Life has been busy and time is getting away from me. I love being a mom, but I do wish I had a baby who consistently slept through the night. He's getting better, I think. (It could just be my imagination and desire speaking.) He is getting so big and is almost five months now. We haven't done too many exciting things recently, even though every day is an adventure. We are officially moving to Boise in July sometime. We are excited to be back home and have baby Llyr close to both sets of grandparents. I know they have already made some plans of what they are going to do with the baby around. We are so grateful to have such loving grandparents who want to switch their lives around to be with their grand babies.

Here are some pic of the little one. We sure take a lot of pics, so I will set the goal to get more of them posted.

First Baseball Game Last Night (4/27/13). It was Utah vs ASU. ASU is ranked and so Llyr wanted to go an watch

He loves holding his toes now!

At his first baseball game, same one as above, but wearing a dad approved hat this time.

Hiding in the warm laundry. He was only allowed to stay for a little bit because of the chance of spit-ups. 

Getting Big and Growing

So little Llyr is now 13 weeks old. I can't believe it. He is getting so big. Life is a little crazy around here. I started work about 2 1/2 weeks ago. It is not very much fun to have to leave my baby, But I will do it because I love him. And luckily I enjoy my job. There is a lot more that goes into having a baby and working then I realized. Getting lunch is ready, and getting his bag ready, making sure there's enough diapers, etc. He still isn't sleeping through the night, and so as you can guess I'm feeling a little tired. (He is worth it, though).

Big Llyr is doing well at work. His boss loves him and luckily he can't do anything wrong At work according to her. He's been working on this big project of redesigning the website and he is getting closer to finishing it. Thank goodness, it has been stressful for both of us.

My little sister Katie had a baby a couple weeks ago. A little girl, named Brooklyn Marie. She was a little thing. Only 7 pounds even. My three month old seems like a giant compared to her. They live in Memphis and so I am not sure when I will finally get to meet my new niece. Hopefully not too long.

We found out about a month ago that our landlord is foreclosing on the condo that we live in. So who knows, we might be moving in a couple weeks. Good thing I have a strong husband who can lift our furniture.

Not much else is going on in the Christensen household at this moment. We are excited for the time when we get to move to Boise.. Hopefully we will be able to buy a house.

Here are some pictures of the little guy.  Some are from Presidents' Day weekend when we went down to St. George to visit Llyr's grandma Horner.

Just smiling away! I love his gummy smile!

Another one with him laughing, I just smile when I look at him.

Great Grandma Horner holding him when we visited her over President's day weekend.

9 weeks and counting

The little guy is now 9 weeks and a few days old. He is just getting cuter by the day. He's smiling and laughing more and more. When we do tummy time he is trying so hard to scoot himself forward. (I'm thinking he'll be mobile before we know it.) He's got a little bit of a firery personality, but I wouldn't expect any less with him coming from our 2 families.

He had a busy weekend. We went to visit Aunt Trudi, my mom's sister, in the hospital. He did pretty well being passed around and what's even better is that Aunt Trudi was released yesterday to go home. We had quite the scare on Thursday night (Llyr's 27th Birthday) when Aunt Trudi went into the ER and was told that she had an aneurysm. My mom called Llyr, me, and my sister Melissa (the only family that is in the Salt Lake area because my Uncle Mike is now working back east). This was on Thursday night around 11pm. Melissa was on her way up and she went with Llyr to go and give Aunt Trudi a blessing. The CT scans that night showed that the bleeding had slowed down and so they did an angiogram on Friday. The results of the Angio showed that the bleeding was on the outside of the brain and that it would heal itself. What a blessing. She was told that she would have a pretty big headache for a couple months, but that she would get better. Little Llyr went to visit her and I think he brought her and my Uncle Ray's spirits up.

We then went to pick up some food for Llyr's aunt and our car battery died. This was right at eating time and so LJ was less than patient. We got a jump, dropped the food off, Llyr dropped us off at home so we could feed the baby and he went straight to Big O.

Then we finished off our Saturday by going to the BYU basketball game in Provo. LJ did really well. It got a little noisy, but he would just open his eyes and then close them again everytime the crowd cheered. Unfortunately, BYU lost, but we still had fun. It was snowing and so the roads were pretty sketchy on the way home. We were driving very cautiously, but not everyone was. There was a car in front of us that spun on the freeway and stopped in our lane, sideways. We had to come to a complete stop on the freeway. Luckily there weren't any cars directly behind us and so we made it home safely.

Yesterday was church and he is doing pretty well, but we did spend sacrament meeting in the foyer. To say the least, it was a great weekend and we had fun spending it together.

Update on Baby Llyr

Little Llyr, Baby Llyr, Junior, or LJ- however we decide to call him- is growing so quickly. He will be 2 months old on Friday. He's been such a fun baby to have even when he's keeping us up at night. I love being his mama and big Llyr loves being his daddy. He's starting to smile and coo a lot more. He tries to scoot when he is doing his tummy time. He wants to be more mobile than he is, so we will see how quickly that starts.

He had his 2 month immunizations last Thursday. It was quite heart breaking to see him cry so much, but he took it like a champ and didn't act like his legs were even sore the next day, but he has had a little low-grade fever since then, but he doesn't have any other symptoms of being sick so the doctors just say to watch him. (He's tougher than me because I remember my kindergarten shots made me sore for weeks. I think I walked around holding my arm for quite some time after those shots.)

Big Llyr is doing well and working. He's ready to start school again, which is a good thing, because I was worried he would struggle getting back into it. Here in a couple weeks, I am starting work again. I am not thrilled about it, but I know that LJ will do great. We have Aunt Missy, me and Llyr each watching him a day and then a friend from our ward is helping out 2 days a week. Hopefully, he'll transition okay and hopefully I'll transition okay and not cry each day at work.

Well, his eyes are turning bluer each day and he's growing. 11 lbs 8.5 oz and 23 inches long at his appointment last week. I'll try to be better at keeping up to date, but below are some pics of the little one.

 I'm not sure he has much of a choice of who he will be cheering for.

Little LJ is starting to smile for us a lot more these days. It's more than enough to make our hearts melt.

Taking a nap with Daddy. (The video of this has big Llyr snoring a little bit. He says that it's 'heavy breathing'.)

More Smiles!!!!

Great Grandma Williams holding Baby Llyr at his blessing. We decided to bless him while we were in Boise over the holidays and it was just wonderful.

4 generations of Christensen boys. They are all looking pretty good there. Little Llyr loved it when Great Grandpa Christensen would sing to him.

Baby's first real bath December 26th