I love Leo

I adore this baby boy, 10 months never looked so good. We laugh so much together, I love it. He is always on the move, always with something in hand. He gives the best open mouth kisses, snuggles, and makes the funniest sounds. 

I love doing his hair every once in awhile, he is just the cutest thing.

He takes two naps a day, about an hour and fifteen minutes each, but the other day he slept for over 2 hours and this is what he looked like when I walked into his room. Priceless!

He loves being made into our bed in the morning, he just sits there and giggles as I tuck him all in.

We visited the Jelly Belly Factory a few weekends ago with some friends, it was fun and delicious!

Leo and his buddy Liam in the belly flops - yes we bought 3 bags to get 2 free!

life lately

We have had some exciting changes in our life the past few months. After graduation Chance went into study mode for his physical therapy board's exam for the month of January. We were able to live with my amazing parents and little sister Emma for this in-between stage and I can honestly say I loved every day. Having three extra sets of arms with a baby is fantastic. Chance also had several interviews during this time and received his dream job offer the day before his exam - talk about pressure to pass! He passed his test and accepted the offer the beginning of February, but didn't start work until March in order for us to have some time as a family and prepare for the move. He is working in an outpatient, orthopedic clinic and loving every minute. We are still getting settled here in Yuba City, but things are going great so far. Here is to the start of a new chapter in our lives!

8 months! Crawling and pulling himself up on everything.

Bath time has become a battle because he does not want to sit still - he always has to be climbing!

watching the Bok Kai parade with Dad

9 months!

I can't believe my little baby turned 9 months a few days ago. He just gets cuter everyday. He loves playing peek-a-boo, hide and seek, going outside, cruising around our couch looking for cell phones or remotes, eating, blowing bubbles with his lips, and reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear. He all of sudden hates getting his diaper changed and getting dressed, the strength of a 9 month old baby is truly amazing!

celebration of love

Chance surprised me with a trip to Santa Cruz for a few days to celebrate Valentine's day. My grandparents have a cute little beach house on the coast that we stayed at, we also spent our honeymoon there! It is my favorite place and it was perfect in every way, just what we needed. 

my valentines

one of my favorite things about staying at the beach house are the beautiful morning runs

Santa Cruz was the inspiration for Leo's middle name Cruz. So fitting for this happy, beautiful baby boy. 

Seriously, is it February?? We got lucky with some amazing weather.

this kid loved his first experience in the sand

We could have watched the surfers all day!

ahhhhh I love this boy!! 

7 months

Leo is at my favorite stage of babyhood right now. He is learning so much every day and is just so dang cute.  This is what Leo has been up to this month:

- sleeping through the night, yay!!!!

- grew two bottom teeth

- goes from hands and knees to sitting 

- napping like a pro

- finally done with a month long runny nose/rsv/cough

- laughs at just about anything

- loves oatmeal, baby food, yogurt

- starting to cuddle with me, so sweet

-and is scooching around like an inchworm everywhere!

6 months

Leo turned six months yesterday, are you serious?? That seems so big! He is at such a fun stage right now. He is sitting up like a champ and likes to rock back and forth on his hands and knees before he face plants. He is entertained by toys for a short period of time and he loves to reach for everything close by and if he gets his hands on it you can be sure it is going in his mouth. It is so fun to watch him learn new things every day and he has been loving all of the attention from our families these past few weeks! I love my sweet baby boy.

the graduate

Chance graduated from his doctorate of physical therapy program last Friday, and I am so proud of him! The ceremony was the best I had ever been too and it was fun to return to Provo for the day, so many memories made in that city.

Leo has had a month of changes, from Austin, to Lodi, to Provo, and now to Idaho Falls. He still keeps that perfect smile on his face during the day, but unfortunately his sleeping habits have returned to newborn ways... no fun.

First family picture with the doctor. 

These are all of the students that were sent to Texas for the past year, the others were sent to other locations throughout the country. 

Congratulations to the inaugural class of the DPT program at Rocky Mountain University! The past three years have had some ups and downs being the first class to go through the program, but it was the perfect fit for us. Chance is so excited to begin his career! We are in Idaho Falls for Christmas and then we will be moving in with my parents in California until Chance finds a job in the northern California area. What an exciting year it has been!

thankful

We had a great Thanksgiving weekend! Chance took Wednesday off and he only had to work a half day on Friday, so it seems like we had an extra long, beautiful weekend.

We celebrated Thanksgiving with some of the great friends we have made here in Austin. Cori set a beautiful table and we all pitched in with the food. It was a great afternoon!

This is Gwen, she and Leo might get married some day.

Saturday we went to the temple and took turns with Leo. It worked out great and it felt so good to be able to go, I love the temple. 

It was a beautiful day to spend some time outside!

I can't believe we are leaving Austin in a week. We have had some great experiences here, with Leo definitely topping the charts. Chance has some interviews in northern California in December so we will see what happens, but for the time being we will be living with our families. Here is to a week of packing all of our belongings for the third time in three years, I am hoping this will be the last time for a few years!