Hat Wars

The hat wars have begun! Anyone who has lived in the deep south knows that summer is not just hot, it's ridiculously hot. The sun is brighter and more direct so sunscreen is a must from Spring to Fall. Hats and sunglasses are a necessity. Visit us in August and you will wholeheartedly agree. Plus, a large portion of our time is spent between a local lake, Grandma and Grandpa Keller's pool and Grandma and Grandpa Reiersen's lake. The majority of our summer is spent in the direct sun. My beautiful child is a fair skinned little boy. Last summer, he did great keeping a hat and sunglasses on his head. He went swimming for the first time at three months and didn't get a hint of a sunburn until October. Now that he's much more mobile and independent, he's not interested in the hat. He constantly takes it off. A friend of mine enforces the rule that if you want to play outside, you have to wear a hat (her father in law died of melanoma). I love that rule. But reasoning with 13 month old is not always easy. So right now we're trying the persistence method. He takes it off, I put it on, over and over and over again. It seems to be paying off. We were at a park playdate today and he actually kept in on for periods of time before pulling it off!