No More Hat Head

Today was a big day – Sadie “graduated” from the helmet. The doctor’s saw such great improvement in the 8 weeks that she has had it and said at this point we need to just focus on her neck. So we will continue with physical therapy and using her neck brace. There is still the possibility of having surgery on her neck but we are going to give the therapy a little while longer before we explore that route. Basically, how it is described to me, there are two muscles on either side of your next called the SCM that are kind of like rubber bands. On Sadie’s left side the muscle is tighter, stronger and appears shorter, causing her to tilt her head, the surgery would “release” this muscle making each side even. Sounds simple enough, though something I still want to avoid for obvious reasons.

Hollis wanted to be sure she got a picture up too...she is very excited not to get bopped in the head while wrestling with Sadie!

11 Months Old

We are 11 months old and doing great! We love spending time together, playing, wrestling and just laughing. In fact, some days, during nap time, instead of sleeping, we just talk - we think it is really funny (our mommy gets a little frustrated!).

Hollis is crawling, pulling up and talking a lot. She says "uh-oh" when she drops things and sometimes "baby" when she sees a picture of herself. She has loved being at the pool this summer. She finally has one tooth with a second one on the way!

Sadie is an explorer - she is all over the place, up the stairs and everything. She now has 5 teeth and a 6th one coming soon. She is doing really well in her helmet and the doctors think she might have it off my the end of next month. She is still tilting her head a bit, so we will continue therapy for a while.

Almost One

How old are we??? ALMOST ONE!! We are learning to point...and gearing up to tell everyone how old we will be in a month!


Sadie isn't quite pointing here, but it was such a cute shot I couldn't leave it out!

Learning to Walk

We have a walking toy that Sadie loves using...she can walk all around the great room,


she can even hold it and walk one handed!

Playgroup in the Pool

Now that it is summer, we can have playgroup in the pool! Sadie and Madeline share a very funny secret, while Evyn is concentrates and Hollis enjoys munching on her toy!


Now the girls pay attention (while Hollis continues chomping away!)