Klay Family: "Put me in Coach"

Well, it's official. I now have a helmet on my head. Mike, the orthopedist, fitted my helmet today. I have to say I like the animal print on the helmet. They want me to wear the helmet for one hour on and one hour off tomorrow, followed by two hours on, one hour off the next day and so on. By day 5, I will wear this thing 23 hours a day. I already apologize to Sara, my daycare provider, for having to put up with this! Daddy still thinks my head is perfect and wonders why I have this thing on. Mommy says it will be all worth it in the end. For the whole two hours total that I wore it tonight, it really didn't bother me much. I was very hot and sweaty under it, which was the only downfall. Here are some pictures and a short video of my new helmet. Daddy says we will have to have a family picture wearing helmets just to make me feel better!

If you look closely, I do have my first tooth sticking out of my gum (on the lower left side of my mouth). This little bugger hurt and I was not the happiest camper last week!

My pacifier makes everything seem so much better!

Here are my deep thoughts about my new helmet (click on the video clip above)

The Cabin...

As you probably can recall, we didn't have the best weather last Thursday for our trip to the Berlute's cabin. We risked it a bit and ended up staying in Duluth overnight.

Who would have guessed by this beautiful picture that the night before was a blizzard!

We stayed in Canal Park at the Comfort Suites and we had a nice view of frozen Lake Superior. Mommy and Daddy reminisced about their college days up there but we didn't have time to drive to St. Scholastica to check it out. Not enough time in the day!

This is what the cabin road looked like as we drove up... ah... winter bliss!

Finally, we made it to the "cabin!"

The weekend ended up being bitterly cold, so the girls mostly stayed in and watched us kids while the boys froze their ? off snowmobiling. This is as close as I got to snowmobiling.

Mommy took me on a really short sledding ride down the driveway.

The Berlutes and the Klay's on our last day

Playing with Lauren and Abby

I turned 9 months old, as you can see on my t-shirt on Feb. 27th. I am getting SOOOOO big! I have my first tooth, I now eat lots of intesting foods, and I scoot all over the floor to get where I want to go. I rock on my hands and knees and can scoot backwards but I haven't figured out forward motion this week YET!