After feeding Peanut his dinner using the Bumbo during the last few weeks, we decided he needs a highchair. His new thing in the bumbo is to use his foot and try to push himself out of it or try to scoot along the counter to get to the sink. Trying to stop him creates a very large mess when I'm holding the bowl of baby food and forget to set it down in my panic that he's going to fall off the counter.
So, while Mike took a baby free nap today, Peanut and I hit Walmart to see what they had. We found one and it was cheap, so it's now assembled and in our very tiny apartment kitchen. The score between the highchair and not stubbing our toes is 2-0. Peanut wasn't too sure what to think about it at first, but when the food came shoveling into his mouth, he started loving it. He looks so tiny in it and his face barely clears the bottom of the tray. It's not the nice, wood chair that I wanted to get, but that has to be ordered online and it's a little more expensive than the $25 I paid at Walmart. Once we have a steady inflow of money, I'll get the one I want and sell this on cragis list or give it away to someone who needs it. Only 3 days until we move (again) and I can start unpacking and settling into our new home. It's very large, about 400 more square feet than our house in Vancouver, and I'll need to go shopping for furniture once I get the green light from Mike that it's ok to shop like I want to.
The weather has been HOT! Not a day below 102 and averaging 104-106. I hate having to put Peanut into the hot car and waiting for the a/c to cool off the backseat area for him. Usually he protests very loudly until he's taken back out again or falls asleep. Although, I'm hoping the crying-the-whole-way-home days are over. Peanut now has a cadillac version of a car seat. It's so soft, I want to sit in it. And it's a discontinued color so we got it for $60 less than it normally retails for. Britax seats come very highly recommended, are extremely safe, and my baby deserves the best, so he now has it. It has kept him cooler than his infant carrier, too.
Another good thing about a new carseat is I have to sew. Since Elliot is no longer in his infant car seat and can't be carried into stores and restaurants in it, he needs a basket cover for shopping carts and a cover for restaurant high chairs. I have the shopping cart one all cut out, and the Kenmore sewing machine Mom gave me is all set up and ready to begin. It looks fairly easy and I should have it done in the next couple of nights after Peanut goes to bed.
The quilt retreat I go to with my Mom and some online quilter friends of hers is the first weekend of November. My plane tickets were bought, car reservation made, and check for the retreat in the mail for Sonya all were done today. Now, I have no excuse to not make the retreat this year despite living 1,100 miles away from it. So for all our Washington/Oregon friends, Peanut and I will be visiting the rainy Pacific Northwest the first 2 weeks in November, so get your calendars ready for our lunch and dinner dates.
For now, I'm off to get some school reading finished. Did I mention only 3 days to move? Woot! I really miss having my stuff around me. I think that is a big part of why I still feel like this is a vacation with boxes instead of suitcases and not a permanent life change. On a good note, I have successfully ventured out into this strange city. I can navigate to Walmart, JoAnn Fabrics, Target, the post office, the cutest little quilt shop with a snooty owner, and a new hair salon. AND, I can make it back to our itsy bitsy apartment again. I am brave, just like the magnet on my fridge says I am.
TTFN ~Crys
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