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Any car seat experts out there?

We have a Maxi-Cosi car seat. I was adjusting it the other day and I had to move the shoulder harness to the tallest setting. I looked up the weight/height limit for the seat and it’s 29 inches/22 pounds. It’ll be a few months (i hope!) before H hits 22 pounds, but he’s already 27 inches long. If he maxes out the height before the weight does that mean we need a bigger car seat? Is it safe to put him in a bigger seat if he’s still a little under the weight limit? It’s probably safer than scrunching him in the seat he’s too tall for, right? Also, I am SO glad my boy is going to be tall! Yay!

Knitting has been slow going. I’m working on a new pair of shorties for H. I’m not far enough into them to even bother with a WIP photo. I’ve also started knitting a table runner out of this handspun. It’s an idea I stole from one of my knit night buddies. It’s a good use of those odd skeins of handspun you can’t find a project for. They’re very handy too. Perfect for putting under a vase of fresh flowers- that is if you are lucky enough to be able to put fresh flowers on your table. I have a cat who loves eating any kind of plant that gets brought into the house. I’d rather skip the flowers than clean up piles and piles of cat barf.

I spend a lot of time looking around on flickr while nursing H. People make some beautiful things with their Yarn Pirate yarn, but this is the first time I’ve seen it used in a weaving project. This was woven by Kate. This is not the first time her work has been featured on my blog. She made H a beautiful granny square blanket and knit a gorgeous scarf with her booty club yarn. She recently bought a loom and has been weaving all kinds of pretty things.

For this project she used the Booty Club colorway “Emerald City”. I’m sending her some yarn to play with and weave something for me- one of my new colorways, Kate. I named this colorway after the very Kate mentioned above, long before I conned her into weaving something for me.

Speaking of new colorways, there are 3 of them. They should be arriving at The Sweet Sheep and The Loopy Ewe in the next week or so. Getting wholesale orders out with H around is next to impossible right now, so snap them up while you can. I am trying to get back to my regular routine, or at least have a new regular routine.

… yes it is.

I tried not to babble, but I had a lot to say.

H is now 2 and 1/2 months old. He is very curious about the world and wakes up bright and early every morning ready to start the day. He sleeps with us, and it is impossible to wake up grumpy when the first thing I see in the morning is his smiling face.

Over the weekend H met his uncle for the first time and went to a Mariner’s game. He charmed the pants off of everyone around us and hardly made a peep. He seemed to enjoy all of the sights and sounds of the ballpark, and when it got to be a bit much he went in his sling for some mommy snuggles and solitude.

Now that the weather is getting nice we’ve been going for long walks every day. I walk with H in his sling. We have a stroller, but it’s still in the box. Although lugging around Mr. 16 pound Chunky Monkey is no easy task, I don’t plan on breaking out the stroller any time soon. I love wearing my baby all snuggled up next to me. He’s only going to tolerate being snuggled up in the sling for a few years tops and I intend to get as many snuggles in as possible.

I am working on writing H’s birth story to share with those of you that are interested. I kept a detailed journal while I was pregnant, so I have it all written down. I’m just having a hard time deciding what to share and what is TMI. I’m also debating whether or not I should share pictures of the birth. Since I was at home I wasn’t all that concerned with modesty. Well, whatever I decide to do it should be all written up by Friday.