Kenzington Rose

This is my darling niece Kenzie! I decided to do a little photo shoot with her while we were visiting. The tutu and hair piece are both handmade by yours truly! I'm really happy with how they turned out!

California trip!

Cohen and his little wet foot prints.

Marcel and my bro ready to eat. Its a tradition for us to eat at the Brackett Airfield!

Grandma bought Cohen a little pilot jacket! so cute!

Grandma showing Cohen the planes. He LOVED them! She bought him a little toy plane and he loves to make it fly and go vroom!

Kenzington Cohen and Rawr!

They loved having bathtime together! Kenzie would laugh hysterically at Cohen!

Our trips to California always seem to go so quickly! I miss my family so much. My little niece Kenzie has grown sooo much. She was barely a newborn when I last saw her and now she is crawling and nearly walking! She's such a pretty little thing with such a gentle personality. While we were there we went to a Royksopp show with our dear friends Payce and Gwen and had Toi Thai after! MMMM how I miss that place. Me and My bff Nicole used to always go there anytime we were in Hollywood. We had our family pictures done by the beautiful and talented Amelia Lyon. I'm so excited to see how they turned out! I didn't realize what a challenge it would be to get Cohen to cooperate but Amelia did amazing at trying to get his attention! I also went to the midnight showing of New Moon with Nicole! I hate that she and I are seperated. She and I have really grown up together and I miss her. No one knows me like she does. We have a bond that will never be broken. It was so good to catch up with her. She is having a baby girl in April... baby Lucille Amelia! I can't wait to meet her. She's going to be beautiful! The next night I went to see New Moon with my family and loved it just as much! Saturday morning we went to the Brackett Airfield for breakfast. It's become a tradition every time we go to California. We had such a fun trip! I can't wait to go back!

my little pilot...

April 2009

November 2009

Hallo-weeeee-n!

We had a really great time this Halloween. It's so much more fun with Cohen! He was scheduled to have surgery the week of Halloween so I didn't have a costume prepared and then last minute the hospital called and said we had to reschedule so I ran to Target and picked up a cute duck suit for Cohen. I thought he looked adorable! Especially the oversized feet! Marcel and I threw our costumes together with whatever we had and wa-la! we became Wayne and Garth from Wayne's World! Pretty sweet I think. We went trick or treating with my cousins in Lehi. Cohen tried walking into peoples houses after getting his candy. After and hour or so of that Cohen passed out in Marcel's arms. I swear our son is growing up before our eyes. Its insane! He leared No (pronounced Na) and he shakes his head. Like if I offer him something he doesn't want or say no to him he shakes his head. He likes to walk backwards now (little showoff) nd he plops down right on my lap. Today he put on my-way too big for him- running shoes and actuallly walked around pretty well in them. He would get really upset when they would come off though. He loves to give kisses and say muah. Its my fav. He even kisses rawr (his lion). He loves to stomp his feet and play with the broom. He buries himself in the throw pillows on our bed. He looks so comfy. He laughed hysterically the other day when i lip synced (very elaborately) to a song that came on. He is the best! We love him so so so much!

i just felt like it..

I really need to get better at blogging. Mostly for me. I always fell so rushed when I post, usually because It's during Cohen's nap time and I only have little moments for me to get things done before my sweet angel makes it difficult. I feel like Cohen is learning so much every day that I can barely keep up or remember to write it down when I get around to it!

Today while I was nannying Cohen came up to me while I was sitting on the ground just watching him play with the other boys and he ran right up to me and wrapped his little arms around my neck, and with a mouth full of goldfish he put his lips to mine and said "muah". I melted. My heart was so full. I felt so loved at that moment and it felt soooo good. I am in awe of my son everyday and the things he learns, mostly by trial and error. He is obsessed with climbing up the slide and walking down the stairs instead of climbing up the stairs and sliding down. He always wants to take the baby's (that i nanny) bottle and put it in his mouth for him. He loves when the older boys run from him. They pretend Cohen is chasing after him but really he just wants to play with them and they keep running. Last night Marcel told me when he was in our bedroom, Cohen opened the door a crack and slid through the crack rather than opening it more. When he peaked through and saw Marcel he yelled "DA-DEE" with his arms out stretched to Marcel. It made him feel so special. I'm loving this time with Cohen and I almost forget what he was like as a baby. He is such a happy boy! He has always been a very easy baby and he is still pretty easy other than his occasional tantrums he's been doing. He gets so frustrated sometimes and kicks and screams. It sounds like he is having an argument sometimes with the way he yells. I hope he didn't learn that from us! yikes! When Marcel and I have had arguments around Cohen he gets pretty upset which usually calms us down because we realize how it affects him. I have moments constantly when I just hold COhen a little bit tighter just trying to savor him. Sometimes when I hold him i feel his little hand patting me on the back. One day Cohen saw me putting lotion on my hands and he just watched me. Then i saw him put his little hands together and rub them. It was so cute! Well I'm going to wrap this up but I am going to do this more so I can look back and remember Cohen's little milestones! He is growing up soooooo fast!

Time for an update!

Cohen is funny as ever. He is soooo close to talking! He has little conversations that only he can understand. My favorite is hearing him in his crib in the morning just jabbering with his lion who we nick named Wisu (pronounce wee-sue) One day while cohen was chatting away i heard him say wisu wisu and is was so cute that we just kept copying him. He stopped saying it now so we decided we'd keep it around by naming his lion Wisu! ha! Cohen loves putting our cell phones, the remote and the computer mouse to his ear and talks! He still loves his "ba" meaning ball and now says balloon "boo"so cute! the other day he did the monkey sound too but instead of oo oo ah ah ah he just said ah ah. it was the best though! he has to be the center of attention when were around people which he usually gets since he is quite the entertainer! he always wants to push the stroller, vacuum and shopping cart which isn't always convenient but cute! he also does a little dance too! he takes steps really fast in one spot and sometimes spins in circles. its funny! '

We've been working on our place painting and decorating. Its close to being done but we still have the whole kitchen to do which is a project since we have to remove wallpaper. ugh! the rest of the place looks great! We're excited for our california trip next month too! We're having family pictures done by my best friend Nicoles sister Amelia who is a professional photographer! I have wanted her to do our pictures since we got married so i'm super excited! I can't wait for New Moon to come out too! We'll be in California when it comes out so i'll get to go with my sister!

Our nephew Sawyer Jeffrey Leao was born yesterday too! We haven't seen him yet but hopefully tomorrow! Cohen has been pretty sick and has a high fever so we don't want to leave him and we certainly don't want him around a newbie. I totally tear up when I think about Sawyer. I love him so much already!!! Babies are such a blessing. I felt the overwhelming desire to have another baby but I know that it would be kind of stressful for us with Marcel not having a steady job and with so much school ahead of him. We think next March would be a good time to start trying again. Cohen would be 2 1/2 when the baby would be born which seems like a good age gap but we'll see if Heavenly Father has other plans for us :)

what a month!

So much has happened since my last post! We are home from Tampa and are still adjusting to being back. We are moving into Marcel's mom's basement apartment but we have to wait until his sister moves out before we can move in. 1 week turned to 2 weeks and now we're going on 3! i'm getting a little frustrated with the situation but i'm trying to be patient because i know it will be good in the end. we wouldn't find a better deal financially anywhere else thats for sure! i've picked out paint colors and have been collecting things here and there to decorate with so that keeps me looking forward to the light at the end of the tunnel :)  Since we've been back I've taken on 2 jobs! I'm working at the Gold's Gym  playroom a couple times a week and am nannying for a family of 3 boys. I feel super blessed to have the oppotunity to work and have Cohen with me especially since marcel still hasn't found work!!! keep us in your prayers that he will find one

soon! 

We also celebrated Cohen's very first brithday! He had a lion party and lots of our friends and family came! It was really fun! He is walking all over the place now and talking his own little language. He walks around pointing at everything. i love it! He loves to say "ba" which means ball. He puts both hands out like he's asking where it is. He also walks around with one arm out. Don;t know why but it's his thing! he screams when other kids are crying and gets super jeaous when i'm holding the babies i nanny. atleast it'll break him in for baby #2! i'm not pregnant again yet... but maybe soon. i'd like to wait until cohen is 2 but if it happens sooner we'd be happy! oh yeah we got a sweet new toy too! a Nikon D60! we're still learning how to work it but so far we love it! and my adoring husband got me a REAL ring! I never cared much that i didn't have a real diamond when we got married nd i kind of enjoyed being able to replace it every so often if i found another i liked more but i'm in love with the ring he got me! he gave it to me on Cohen's birthday and said thank you for being such a good mom for Cohen's first year.... anyone who knows my husband knows he is such a sweetheart and so thoughtful so it's not suprising he did that. i love him so much and i'm so grateful to have a husband who appreciates me as much as he does :)