-HELMET-
The past few weeks have been a busy few weeks in the Jackson household! Two weeks ago, Nathan started wearing his helmet, and I think he has actually taken well to it, as much as he can. We gradually phased him into wearing it for the full 23 hours a day throughout the first week (Day 1: 1 hr on 1 hr off, Day 2: 2 hrs on 1 hr off, Day 3: 4 hrs on 1 hr off, Day 4: 8 hrs on 1 hr off, and Day 5: 23 hrs on, 1 hr off). We take it off 30 minutes in the morning to clean it and dress him, then 30 minutes off at night to bathe him and get him ready for bed. The biggest struggle more than anything is just putting it on and taking it off. He's not the biggest fan of that, but like his daddy, he has a short term memory, so he doesn't really remember 5 minutes after we put it on!
When we were getting fitted for the helmet, the "orthotic guy" (I don't know what else to call him), pointed us to a great company called BlingYourBand.com. This lady had a child who was prescribed to wear a helmet like Nate's, and she wanted to decorate it. So she made a business out of making stickers to decorate the helmet. She's made a bunch of different helmet designs just through creating customized stickers that go on the helmet and modge podge the stickers to seal it. If you want to check out more of their stuff, just click HERE.
So this is what we chose to decorate Nate's helmet with:
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| All Smiles :) |
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| We love it that his hair spikes out the top! |
-HOMECOMING-
A couple of weekends ago, Nate, Britt, and I, loaded up the car (90% of which was Nate's) and headed North for TCU's Homecoming Weekend. For those that don't know, Britt is a 2008 graduate of TCU, and I went there for 2 years before finishing up at Sam Houston State. To plainly say it, we love TCU! It was also Nate's 8 Month Birthday. We were able to meet up with the Connelly's and Dore's on our way in, and finally got to meet Maggie! It's always a blessing and pleasure to catch up with them and we really love doing life with them (even if we're 200 miles away). We stayed with Brittney's big from her sorority, Laura, and her husband, Danny. On game day, we tailgated with Laura and Danny and some of their friends, then went and saw Britt's best friend, Jenn, at their tailgate. TCU recently just renovated their stadium, and let me tell you it's awesome! Nate had a good time getting all the attention from all of our friends, and his helmet was a hit with the TCU fans! One thing we didn't think about was the noise. Nate didn't like the noise too much, so Britt ended up walking the concourse with him until half time. We'll just have to phase him in with High School football next year (Go Highlanders)! All in all, it was a good trip and we loved the time we got to spend with our dear friends.
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| He's growing up too fast |
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| We can sit on our own! |
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| Britt, Nate, and Jenn |
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| Nate and his first Buccee's Experience! He kept taking the straw out of my drink! |
- HALLOWEEN -
I know it's not halloween yet, I just needed another H word to fill the title out.... I guess I could've used Harvest, but ehh...
This past weekend we went to a pumpkin patch to take a couple of family photos with my parents at the church I grew up in here in The Woodlands. Nate had a blast and we got some decent family photos too!
We're definitely doing our best to stay busy, but I love our little family life.
-Ryan
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