We had a great weekend. It rained buckets Saturday so we went shopping. We bought a new computer chair (nice), some foam puzzle block mat pieces for Ethan, that he was a little freaked out about at first but really enjoys looking at the punch-out letters and numbers, a new sheet-set, some kitchen towels, some new Ethan dishes for feeding, and the best part was the trip to Target and the acquisition of a new car seat. Ethan was already past the height limit for his infant seat, and we were going to have to get a conversion seat anyways. The one we got works as an infant seat (rear-facing 5-35lbs) a conversion seat (forward-facing 20-40lbs) as well as a booster (forward-facing with the seatbelts used as belts 40-80lbs). They had one to 100lbs, but we figured that was a bit extreme. By the time he’s that heavy he’s going to be too tall to fit in the booster (if he continues along his current ectomorphic pattern). It saves us having to get several seats, and will work for any subsequent kids at any age – though it’s not removable like our Evenflo so until the kids can hold up their heads they’ll still sit in the old infant seat. It’s a nice chair, colour’s nice, not toooo huge, and has a fancy brand name to impress the neighbours (Eddie Bauer suckas!) *eye roll*.

We measured The Little Man this morning and he’s gained another .2lbs (up to 15lbs even now). He’s not grown (still 26.5″) and his noggin grew half an inch (43.5″). When we were folding laundry yesterday I, out of amused curiosity, held up some of his 6-9 month summer stuff to see when they’d fit. They.fit.now. :O Darnit he keeps growing!! What the heck! So though he’s only grown *out* of some clothes, his circulating wardrobe has grown larger. Oy! I need warm weather, STAT!

We’re starting two foods this week – there’s too many foods to keep on the 7day schedule, so we’re switching to 4. This morning we tried sweet potatoes. He wasn’t terribly hungry (even for his favourite, applesauce) but he ate it. We’ll be trying yogurt later this week – homemade, since I can’t get whole-milk yogurt at the grocery. After making his sweet potatoes last night I’m eternally thankful that I tried doing the “make your own baby food” thing before going to store bought. It’s so totally easy! All you need is a decent blender (I’m glad we’ve got the immersion blender since it rocks!), and ice cube tray or two, and ziplock bags (freezer ones). I make one batch (last night it was 4 small sweet potatoes – baked), blend, spoon into the ice cube trays, freeze, dump into the freezer bags, then take one out (or more depending on how much and how many meals he’ll be eating the next day) at night and thaw out for the next morning. Ethan doesn’t mind if his food’s cool (yay!) so I take it out of the fridge, grab a spoon, bib the boy and FEED! And I’ve got weeks of food waiting (each batch has made about 2.5-3 trays and there’s 14 or so cubes per tray).

So that’s about it. Not too exciting but fun nonetheless. Today we’re back to the usual grind. Mr. Man is tired now (he was really cranky and clingy this weekend – I think the separation anxiety is starting), so I’m going…