Jumping baby!

Dallin got this jumperoo toy for Christmas and he's really started enjoying it recently. He'll just bounce and jump for minutes straight. Well, you can see for yourself. Have fun turning your head to see the movie, I can't rotate it. And notice the phone book he's standing on. He's just barely to short to reach all the way to the ground.

New Favorite Toy

Dallin has a new love: a toy. This little table is the perfect height for him to stand at by himself. He really likes being a big boy and standing up, but he can't stand without support from someone or something. Enter table toy.

He likes to practice standing/walking a lot, but he's not as excited to practice crawling. This is what usually happens when he's on his tummy:

He really has the pathetic "help me!" face down.

Success! Finally!

As anyone who has been keeping up with my blog would know, Dallin has had a little trouble gaining weight since he was about 4 months old. For whatever reason, he just hasn't been able to gain enough weight to keep up with his growth curve, or any growth curve for that matter. He has moments when he'll be doing well and then he'll drop off again. In every other respect, he seems like a perfectly healthy baby. He looks healthy (he's small, but he's not skin and bones, he's got fat on him), he's a very happy baby, he can stand up by himself while holding onto a chair, couch, toy, etc., and is working on crawling. I just haven't been able to get him to gain much weight. Even when I gave him some super calorie formula for 2 weeks on the pediatrician's recommendation, his weight did go up, but not really any substantial amount, just an average amount.

At the beginning of this month, he hit rock bottom. In one month, he did not gain any weight. Not a single ounce. I'm not exactly sure how that happened (I promise I was feeding him!). I knew that I needed to do something different to help him gain weight. I'm willing to give Dallin formula if that is what is necessary to keep him healthy, but I wanted to try every other possibility before going to that. So I started working with a breastfeeding specialist. She gave me some tips and I tried them for a week. Then I took him back to the specialist yesterday to be weighed again. I'm always nervous when I take Dallin to be weighed. We weighed him, and in one week he had gained 4 ounces. The specialist was expecting him to gain about 1-3 ounces. He finally gained more than expected instead of less!!! I'm so happy that something has finally worked. Seriously, this was like the 3rd best moment of Dallin's life; #1 being when he was born and #2 when the cardiologist told us his heart was fine.

I'm going to keep doing what I've been doing and hopefully it will continue to work and he'll keep growing well. I would love to be able to be past all these weight problems. I know it's only been a week and that we need to keep him gaining like this a lot longer than that, but we finally have a good start.

And I'm happy to report that he has gotten his first tooth!

Tooth #2 will follow shortly.

Yummy burritos!

This is what happens when Dallin is around bowls of food and you get distracted for one second:

Mmmmm... sour cream.

Happy Birthday to me!

My 23rd birthday was last week. To celebrate I invited my siblings that live in Provo to come over for dinner a few days before my birthday. I made an Apple Stuffed Pork Loin Roast.

Very tasty.

Along with it we had Fettuccine, broccoli and salad.

And for dessert: Boston Cream Pie, one of my favorites and my usual birthday cake.

The birthday girl in all her glory.

We somehow didn't have birthday candles, so we stuck a match in the cake. Very resourceful.

My actual birthday was pretty low key since we had other celebrations before. Mckay and I went to Red Robin for dinner. You can't go wrong with a Banzai burger and bottomless steak fries. And later on in the week we took advantage of Coldstone's birthday club and got free ice cream.

Delicious.

Does anyone know what day it is?

Happy Friday!

(Thanks for the bibs aunt Julie!)

Downtown Denver

While we were in Colorado for Christmas, we went to Downtown Denver. I had never seen it before and I've heard about the how amazing it is and the attractions they have. So we took the light rail downtown.

Mckay's mom, Graham and Annie came too.

While there we walked through the 16th street mall. 16th street has a large portion blocked off from cars and it just has pedestrian traffic and a free bus going up and down the street all day. There are tons and tons of shops, restaurants and a mall all along the street.

We ate lunch at Illegal Pete's. It's a burrito place much like Qdoba or Chipotle's (which is Mckay's favorite).

It was muy bueno.

We also went to the capital building

and we learned some things about Denver history and the building itself.

We took turns getting into the old school phone booths

and we stared up at the amazing dome. Unfortunately, we were just barely too late to make the last tour of the day up to the dome. Next time...

And since Denver is known for being "the mile high city," we had to find proof that this was actually true. There it was, engraved right into the steps of the capitol building, "one mile above sea level."

If you notice, a few steps up from the writing is a circular gold plaque marking exactly 5280 ft elevation. Or so they thought. Not too long ago (maybe 2002 ish?) they measured again and found that their previous marker was too high and that exactly 5280 feet was down 5 more steps, marked by the plaque at the bottom of the picture.

The view from the capitol.

And here is Dallin sporting a Colorado Avalanche hat. If you spend too much time in Denver, you automatically become a fan. They are that awesome.