9 month well child...and a family update

I took Dallin to his 9 month well child visit yesterday and he is doing great. He weighs 17 lbs 5 oz and is 26 in long. When I took him in at 8 months he was 16 lbs 14 oz and 26 in long so he has put on a little chub in the last month. He is in the 5th percentile still but at least he's growing. The dr said that if he was born closer to his due date and was only 8 months old like he should be he would be in the 25th percentile so it's because he was early. I'm not too worried though cause he is hitting all his milestones right on time. He is crawling all over the place I can barely keep up with the kid. He is getting better at scaling the furniture and he is walking pretty good while holding our hands, which is a new developement as of last week. It's nuts how fast he is learning things. I love it. He now says "Dad, da da da" to get Trenton's attention and says "Ma ma ma" when he wants me to cuddle him or when he gets tired. He definitely says dad way more than he says mom though, but that's ok I'm not jealous I think it is the cutest thing in the world! He loves going for rides on the 4 wheelers with us. We just take him around real slow but he likes it. It's funny, whenever we are outside and he sees the 4 wheelers he tries to climb over my shoulder just to get to them. We just bought Dallin a little wade pool so he and I can sit out in the backyard and play in the pool on my days off since it's been so hot here lately. I am super excited to get it set up. I hope he likes it as much as he like aunt Sharla's pool. He is sleeping better at night. Still not as long as I would like but I'll take what I can get. He eats pretty much everything we do just in smaller "bite size" portions, all except dairy. I can't believe how fast time flies. We couldn't be luckier though. He is happy all of the time. Even without naps he is the smiliest little boy I've ever seen.

As for Trenton and I, we are doing good. Just living day by day. Trenton's job is still doing good. They just got a new contract which guarantees work for a year. Which is great news for us! Trenton will also start his 3rd year of school in September. I can't believe we have been here that long. It will be 2 years in September. We are liking it here more and more each day except for being away from our family and friends in Boise. Hopefully we can move back home some day. I am still working at State Farm 3 days a week and love being able to be home with Dallin the other 2 days. Maybe someday I will get to be a stay at home mom...we'll see. We have been riding the 4 wheelers a lot more lately, especially now that I have learned how to ride them. I even did jumps and caught some air...not too much of it but all 4 wheels were off the ground. Yeah that's right, I'm pretty much fearless. PAH HA. I will post some videos of that later this week. We have been a little busy with people in town. Our friends Megan and Jay came to town for the 4th of July and we had a BLAST. We road the 4 wheelers, went and saw Eclipse (LOVED IT!) played water balloon capture the flag in our front and back yard (that was pretty much AWESOME) and lit off some fireworks. Dallin loved watching all the pretty lights they made. He didn't get scared of any of them. I swear to you my kid is fearless, which is great sometimes and scares the crap out of me at the same time. He's gonna be a tough one to keep up with. Megan and Jay left on Tuesday and my mom came Wednesday night. It was awesome to have her here. She watched Dallin while I worked Thursday and Friday. Friday night her and I went to see Eclipse since she hadn't seen it yet (loved it again) Saturday we went out to visit Sharla in Salt Lake. We went shopping and sat in her little wade pool while Dallin crawled around. It was way fun. Well guys, sorry for such a long update but it's been a while. Hope everything is going well for you guys. Love you all!