Summer Infant Super Seat

I just wanted to rave for a minute about the Summer Infant Super Seat! We bought this for Kirsten for Valentine's Day and tried it out last night and she really enjoys it. She doesn't fully understand it yet, but she will sit in it, look around, watch the tv, and sits up VERY well on her own (as seen in the photo).
This product is awesome and really great to use before the exersaucer. She can't hold herself up well enough yet in the exersaucer, so I wanted something that would act as in "in-between" toy.
I can't wait for her to fully use the chair, and its toys. I hope she enjoys it and wants to eat snacks and watch morning cartoons while sitting in the chair.
I would say this is far better than the Bumbo!
The back is high and she doesn't flop back, and I don't worry about her tipping over or falling out.

Play time!!!!

I thought babies liked toys?

I really never thought I would see the day where I wanted so badly to be able to just leave the house, and find myself so bored with watching tv and lounging in pjs all day!

We are still under lots of snow, and schools have been closed all week. Todd hasn't gone in since last Friday. It is basically a winter wonderland out there, and even though it is so pretty, I am dying for a McDonald's frappe!!!!! (do they deliver?)



On another note, I have discovered this weird phase that babies go through that parents rarely think about... the first 3 months. I spend so much time researching toys and entertainers for Kirsten, and received so many great gifts, and while pregnant I could not wait to put them together and have her use them. We have a bouncer, swing, jumperoo, play table... the list goes on and on. Even something as simple as a teddy bear! Well, the first three months are filled with baby really caring less about any of this stuff. She is far more entertained by the large black and white picture we have hanging behind the couch. I try to put her in her swing when she is awake and am met by screams. The bouncer, same thing. Play mat, do dice. UGH!

I am one who enjoys the toys far more than the children. I love seeing them play and get a thrill out of something I took so much time and effort into researching and finding THE BEST version of, and it really bums me out that I have to wait 2 more months until she really will be entertained by any of these things.

Granted... she may enjoy them sooner. And maybe she will glance at the tv when I put the Baby Einstein dvds on, but for now she is really just into eating a pooping.

Sigh.... so to any potential parents. Don't get excited over the toys just yet. Tuck them away and wait until baby is past this phase. Or else you will be met with major disappointment!

Lots of little things

Seriously, am I still bleeding after giving birth? One month later???? This is every girls worst nightmare! And to think, Aunt FLO hasn't even arrived yet! Oh the horror!!!!!

It was Kirsten's one month birthday on Monday! My little girl is getting so big. She is very much more wide eyed, babbles more, and looks as though she can focus more on objects. And she is still rolling over!

To celebrate being one month she has gotten a cold. Her little nose is completely clogged and she sounds awful! I try the nose sucker, and it seems to not really work. I have resorted to shoving baby q-tips up her nose and yanking out giant boogers. She of course screams, but I can't take hearing her struggle to breath all day!

We were supposed to go for one month photos but due to the weather and her cold, we decided against it.

Which remind me...... holy snow Batman! We got about 20 inches of snow here. Thankfully Todd shoveled us out, so we aren't completely snowed in, but it is still very crazy. We took Pete to Petco for a groom yesterday and struggled on the roads. Main roads are barely touched, and cars were sliding everywhere! Schools are closed and Pittsburgh seems to not really know what to do with itself.

I hope to get Kirsten outside for a photo or two with the snow in the background. I can't wait to tell her about this ten years from now! I only wish she was a little older so we could go sled riding!