Mary Reese is 9 months old today! To celebrate, we headed over to Target to purchase a big-girl car seat with a big-girl price tag (who knew car seats were so expensive?). There were two color options: a two tone gray or a loud and proud pink. The gray looked like the interior of a 1980′s astro van, so we went with pink. Bold, loud, and oh so girly. And according to G, slightly obnoxious.
Regardless, I’m glad to have the car seat purchase behind me. Now, I can focus on packing for the beach. And trying to figure out what we’re going to do on July 31, when our lease runs out. Hmmm, I just realized that that is only 5 weeks from now. At least if we’re homeless, MR will have a comfortable car seat to sleep in.
One additional prayer request before I go. Please say a special prayer for my sister tonight. She goes in tomorrow morning for another sonogram to determine if little Trent’s left kidney is functioning. Please pray that God will impart His comfort and peace on Julie and Bill and that He will continue to bless baby Trent.
I’m leaving you with some pictures that we took on Wednesday of MR’s first trip to the pool. We had so much fun on our pool playdate with Clare and Bradley that we went back for round two later that evening (no worries, I loaded G and MR down with SPF 50 before leaving the house).
Look at G without a shirt. Hot daddy-o.
That bathing suit is way cute.
She is such a sweetie! Are you turning her around in her seat already? Or did she just outgrow the infant seat?
We had to turn Addison around at 11 months. She was already 20 lbs at that point and she’d push her legs against the back of the seat and lift the entire carseat and base up. The doc said to turn her around…and she hasn’t been the same since!
We’re still going to leave her rear facing until we go in for our next drs appt (in mid July). MR is 22 pounds now; poor thing looked like a giant in her infant seat. I feel bad that we left her in it for so long. We probably should have gotten the bigger car seat earlier. Hopefully, the new seat will help with our 9-10 hour drive next week to the coast.