MIA

I know that we have been MIA lately.  Leon has been working so hard this semester and is currently enrolled in the Negotiation Workshop at Harvard, which keeps him at school until like 7:30 on Wednesdays and Thursdays.  I just finished my third rotation at Boston Childrens, which required me to work and travel a lot more than I would have liked. And Ellie, well Ellie is always keeping everyone busy.

Take home point is that we are busy but we are all alive and well.  We miss our friends and family so much, but are excited to be heading to San Diego for the summer. Leon was offered a position with the US attorney's office in San Diego while I finish up my last two rotations in Murrieta/Temecula area. Ellie gets to play with Mimi and Jax! She is so excited, and so are we.

Can you believe that I am almost done? I graduate August 4th!! I can't wait. Then it is off to the real world, getting a real job, making real money, and only working part time of course. I would love to get a job in the ER where I can work nights, which is what I am doing for my next rotation. So if you see me this summer and I look 10 years older, now you know why. I just want to be home with my baby, but these blasted student loans aren't going to pay themselves haha. 

Anyway, I thought I would share a little picture vomit of our lives as of late. Enjoy. 

Ever since our trip to the museum and the introduction of Rio "the birdy show", Ellie always wants her birdy towel. And she looks so darn cute, I can't help but let her stay in it for a while.

Ellie loves to watch me get ready in the morning and she will play in the bathroom right next to me. She decided to put my bra on one day and get into my "pretties" which is what she calls jewelry. Haha. Leon is in trouble because this little one is all girl.

Her favorite part of the park is the slide. As you can tell, she can't help but smile and laugh every time she goes down.

Do you like her pony? I love that her hair is finally growing a bit and she looks like such a big girl when we put it in a pony haha.

And last, but certainly not least, my two lovies favorite things to do. BAhaha, Ellie looks so funny! She loves to feel big and pull the computer right on her tummy. I will give you two guesses at what she is watching. Did you say Barney or Elmo (Sesame Street)? Ding! ding! ding! Its one of the two, it's always one of the two. Love her (and him come to think of it) to pieces!

Love and miss you all! 8 weeks and counting! muah xoxo

Natural History Museum

Living in Boston can be quite overwhelming sometimes.  There is always so much to see and so much to do. I want to be the best mom possible and constantly entertain my one year old and with so many choices where do I start? I want to teach her everything I know and show her everything beautiful I have seen. But in reality that is sometimes a little harder than I imagine.  

Being the museum jukies that we are, Leon and I would probably spend the majority of our free time learning as much as we could while we are living in such a historical city, but the princess dosen't always make that possible. She would rather spend her time running around, singing, climbing on things, and pulling things off the shelves. And we wouldn't have her any other way. But one Saturday afternoon, we decided to spend some quality time at Harvard's natural history museum.

The museum was fascinating, especially after having taken Evolutionary Biology at BYU my senior year. They had everything from dinasaur bones to all the finches found by Darwin on the Galapagos islands.  This was the moment Ellie first learned about birdies.  I tried to explain the principles of natural selection as best as I could to a one year old, but all she got out of it was "birdies!". She is the best. 

She loved to run around and make trouble. The Harvard crowd isn't quite ready for a girl like her. They got a little uncomfortable when she was crawling on the ground roaring like a lion haha. Their loss.  

I showed Ellie a model of an ape and informed her that if she ever became an archeologist one day and found a skull in a dig, she could tell if it was a human skull or a monkey skull by one important characteristic... a chin. Apes don't have chins.

Leon always wants to read all of the information about each display.  It's a cute quark about going to museums with him. I think Ellie would have appreciated him reading out loud :)

Is there anything she doesn't want to touch? The simple answer to that is... no.

She looks so astute in this picture, like she is really interested in the dinasaurs behind the glass, but she just really liked messing around on the bar haha.

Ellie loves learning about fossils from Daddy. She especially loves getting to touch them.

What I wanted to say: Look Ellie! There are muliple varieties of humming birds that must adapt in their appearance over time in order to survive in their habitat.

What I really said: Look Ellie! Look at all the pretty birdies!

We are so lucky to have this little princess in our lives.  Honestly she makes everything better...even museum trips.