Easter Egg Hunt in East Texas

I have lots of pictures to share from our weekend in East Texas, but I felt like these needed a post of their own!

Puffs and Water

Sweet noggin' (and happy birthday!!)

I love seeing my little Whitt without his helmet! We only get one hour out of the day to love on him without it....and I take advantage of kissing all over his stinky head! He's only been wearing it for 2 weeks and it already feels like 2 months! BUT... we can already see a huge difference.

Enjoying my one hour off without my helmet!

Look, I'm 6 1/2 months old and I can stand!! Ha!

See how round my noggin is getting??

This first two pictures are before the helmet...

This picture is after wearing the helmet for 2 weeks!

AND.....It's Josh's 33rd birthday today! We spent a few days at the lake and he just "fished it up"!! He had lots of fun and now we are home recuperating! I didn't take many pictures of our time there! It's kind of hard to do while juggling 2 kiddos!!! Nanny made Josh a cake...I iced it and decorated it! I would like to blame the outcome on Cooper, but he can't write yet, so I have to take the blame for the horrendous-ness that it is!!! Josh, we love you so much! I hope you had a super happy birthday. As soon as I post these pics, I'm going to come in there and hang out with you!! Hehe!!!

Official Sitter

The day after my last post, Whitten decided to be an official sitter!! Yay! So at exactly 6 months 1 week and 5 days (ok, 6 1/2 months) our big boy is sitting proudly! He can even balance check himself when he's about to fall over! It's crazy how he couldn't do it one day, and the very next he could!! Cooper sat just about 2-3 weeks earlier but it's probably because I practiced with him more...I had nothing else to do! And the fact that Whitt is just a tiny bit umm....rounder than Cooper was at this age, may have had something to do with it!! ; ) On a real quick side note about his helmet. I'm starting to feel like I need to explain why he's wearing a helmet to every person we run into. I don't know why! I think he looks stinkin' adorable, but I'm sure people wonder what in the world is going on. I didn't think it would bother me....and honestly, it doesn't! I just feel like I need to tell people that he's totally normal and that the helmet was solely our decision for cosmetic reasons!! I know, I know! Silly! Anyway, here's some pics of our super sitter with his super cute helmet!!

Look, I can even play with my toys while sitting up! So cool!

Sitting up and Helmet pics!

So, our little guy is sitting up (kind of)!! I don't think it will be too much longer before he's not taking face plants into the floor!! And yes, the comforter that he is on is mine from the 9th grade!!!!!

Look, Mommy! I'm a big boy!

OOhhhh...steady!!! (You can really see my flat head from this angle!!)
Whoops! Down I go!
Ahh, this isn't too bad!

And here is our little linebacker. Aint he cute!?

So the helmet process is going well so far! The official fitting was a nightmare! It was right smack in the middle of nap time, and Whitt was having none of it! He screamed bloody murder every time we put the helmet on him (we had to practice), and was a happy camper as soon as we took it off! I thought for sure this helmet thing was going to be miserable. So after driving to Addison and back in one day (a total of 12 hour in the car), our "day 1" was to start the next day! The schedule was...on one hour, off one hour, on one hour, off one our...all day! No sleeping in the helmet! Sweet baby boy did awesome!!!!! Didn't seem to bother him one bit! Today was day 2. On 2 hours, off 1 hour, and so on...no sleeping in it. So I put it on as soon as he woke up. He wore it for 2 hours and I took it off when he went down for his nap. As soon as he was up, it was back on for another 2 hours until he was back down for his nap. After his second nap, we left it on until bed time....4 whole hours. He doesn't wear it for 23 hours a day until day 5. After day 5, it's on for 23 hours a day for 2-5 months (1 hour off so he can take a bath and to clean the helmet). I can't wait for his little noggin to be round again! ; ) Not that I don't like his super cool helmet, but we have to go back and forth to Dallas every other week during this process! UGH!!!! Most of the time it will just be me and Whitt flying in and flying out in one day. So, let's just hope he has some big growth spurts during this time and his head rounds out in no time!!!!!!!!