New Routines

Today was an eventful/stressful/weird day for the Porta clan. It was Megan's first day back at work and the two boys had to find a way to survive at home alone. Luckily Elijah took some good naps and made the day easy for dad. In the afternoon we all took a trip to see the Orthotist and Elijah got to try on his helmet for the first time. He did not like it...much like an adult salmon swimming upstream for miles just to give birth, only to reach the final jump and land into a grizzly bear's mouth...basically, lots of screaming and back arching. After a few tries and a short nap (we were there awhile) the helmet fit good enough for Ma and Pa to practice putting it on and taking it off.
Tomorrow is Day 1 and he'll gradually begin to wear the helmet for the next 5 days until he is wearing 23 hours a day!
Going into the appointment the plan was to throw the helmet out the window of the car while driving home (Megan's idea) buuuut he looks so danged cute in that little helmet that we decided to keep it...and the fact that it will help make his noggin more evenly shaped is icing on the cake.
This is a minor glitch in the face of his other difficulties, but in the long run it will be the best thing for him....especially when he's wearing a football helmet and obliterating quarterbacks like his dad used to....or at least used to dream of.

We promised a picture and we'll post some of him in the helmet tomorrow. These pictures are of the helmet and casting of what his head will look like after he's done wearing it (the blue part is the part that needs to be reshaped and as you can see is quite big and why we decided to not throw the helmet out the window of the car).

ps. Megan is the hottest Mama EVER!