You know, I've always wondered why people talk about having trouble lifting the baby over the car seat straps when they are rearward facing... and it finally occurred to me! We have a subaru forester - so highish roof, and the anchor point is in the roof - so we could just lift Sam out between the car seat and the straps. We also did the centre seat thing which made it easier for us, too. I can understand why some people have trouble now - I could never get my head around it before. But... when you've seen the videos and stuff, every time we have a near miss while driving my heart ends up in my throat thinking about what could happen to Sam. I would much rather we were able to use the extended rear-facing seats here like they have in Europe - much safer.

Teething munchkin here - he appears to be working on all four molars at once - mushy spots on his bottom gums and hard lumps on the top (but they have retreated from where they were the other day). He also looks really puffy and swollen along his jaw line. Poor kid... he's still mostly eating, which is one less stress. He all but stops eating completely when he's teething. And mummy forgot to buy icy poles for him today.