NO MORE HELMET!!!

as of last week,

we are HELMET FREE!

Here is Beckley at his last helmet appointment

this is the first time he ever got upset

in the scanning machine - poor guy.

he is pretty darn cute in that "doo-rag" (??)

but, I won't miss these appointments much!

(click here to see him at his first appointment)

a picture with Mike, "the helmet guy"

(super nice guy - but, won't miss him much either)

although, Beckley was sad to see him go

(Beckley waving bye and looking concerned

as Mike leaves)

So...

 here are some stats on Beckley's head:

(if you don't remember what each of these measurements are

see this post)

                                                                    as of 9/14/10                 as of 1/13/11

Cephalic Ratio                                                 0.926                             0.878

Oblique Diagonal Difference                           7.9                                  3.2

He is now average on both of these measurements!

Just for "fun",

here are some before and after pictures:

BEFORE

Beckley is the one on the bottom

-- you can see the his head is wide.

here you can see that his head was 

pretty flat in the back

AFTER

all of those after pictures were taken last week.

we are very happy with the

success of the helmet!

we are also very happy

to be done with the helmet!

   

 we celebrated by giving Beckley his first chocolate chip cookie...

i think he liked it!

we're not quite sure where the helmet's new home will be...

or what we will do with all the stickers

that decorated the helmet the last few months

(for now they are on his bathroom mirror...

i should put them in his baby book...

if only i had kept up on that!)

and although we will miss

the extra protection the helmet provided

(we've already had some big bumps post helmet)...

we will NOT miss

a very stinky head,

having to take it on and off

(this was tricky when there was only one of us),

trying to get his shirts on or off over that helmet

(i think he is forever traumatized about getting dressed!)

tantrums thrown while holding him with the helmet on (ouch!),

and stiff necks from him "resting" his head on our shoulder as he fell asleep.

and...

 I am sure Beckley

is loving sleeping

helmet free!

(although it didn't seem to bother him,

i still can't imagine that it was comfortable to sleep in!)

(here is asleep tonight

without his helmet!)

night night

&

buh bye

helmet!