Joshua Mats Christensen

YAY!! After what seemed like a long time of waiting, and reading into every "going into labor" sign twice we welcomed Josh into our family! He was born at 9:55 am on March 18th a whopping 6lbs 15oz! ha! A heavy hitter indeed! haha

We went into the hospital Saturday night, and after about an hour they told us to walk around the hospital for a couple hours. Great! Why wouldn't we want to walk around the hospital for a couple hours?! So instead we walked around the hospital for a half hour, and then went into Sam's classroom to kill time watching some funnies, and trying to get some sleep. He slept. I did not. Sam did make the comment "what's with you having the babies in the middle of the night, it'd be nice to have a baby at like 10 in the morning." Ha! He was pretty spot on, but probably didn't mean to be in the hospital all night and on to the next morning.

 It was a very different experience than with Kaj, and I hope I learned my lesson with comparing my pregnancies and my labors...His whole face was a bruise when he was born, and both Sam and I were a little "...yikes.."

So far he is a very sweet, quiet baby. He is not very fussy, and of course he is getting a lot of shut eye. Kaj is very indifferent towards him, but that is better than being too jealous. We're happy to be home. We were happy to have help so soon.

Dear Kaj

This may be on a bit of a sappier note today, after a great Sunday at church, and then with the fam, I began thinking of my little boy. I feel that the time is very near that will soon welcome the newest member of our family. I hope that I am somewhat prepared for the change, but really the only consolation I even have is that I have done this before... it doesn't help too much, because I also know how different it can be. The only thing that Kaj seems to understand is where the baby currently resides, not that his whole life is going to change, and that with the change he will be a brother.

My sweet Kaj Bears...what a sweet, sweet boy, a little moody at times, but mostly just a great kid. Kaj loves to dance, loves music, the outside. Kaj loves to run, and to laugh, go down the slides, and swing on the swings. He also loves his Mr. Bunny who is now sitting right beside him at meal time, even gets to sample some food, gets to wear chapstick, and even gets the tickle bug. Kaj loves his trains "chooch" and can now say: "stars" "beps" aka steps, "ball", "bear", "mom" (which luckily is interchangeable for me or Sam.) and "tickle tickle" Kaj, I love you so so much, and even though you may never remember the time that you were our only, I could not ask for better company.