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.