Why you should try to keep your child as small as possible...

Okay, I don't really mean you should starve your child, or bind their feet, or anything like that. But if God should bless you with a petite baby, who doesn't grow very fast, but is in all ways healthy, you should give Him a big shout out. Because when I was first looking for stuff for Izzy, I was really excited to pick out her "gear" and finally settled on this awesome carseat made by Chicco. It is grey and green, and washes easily, and is generally cute. So I bought it and the matching stroller. Little did I know that Little Miss Chunky Butt would grow out of it in less than 8 months, and require a brand new car seat, and would never be able to use the old one again. So, now, not only do I have to buy a new car seat, but I have to get pregnant and have as many babies as I can in the next 4 years and 4 months (I read somewhere that car seats are only good for 5 years) so that I can get as much use out of this stinking infant car seat as I can. The stupid c-section means that I have to wait at least a year before getting pregnant, so I should just charge the obstetrician 1/5 of the cost of the infant seat, because he's cost me that much by cutting open my stomach. Anyways, so now I am trying to pick out a new car seat for Izzy, the Godzilla baby, and I have a confusing number of options. Should I get one that goes to 40 lbs, 65 lbs, or even 80 lbs? Do I need a "tummy pillow"? Should I pay the extra $30 so that to adjust it, I can just leave it in the car and turn a knob? Or should I buy that new sports bra instead, and wear it when I wrestle the car seat out of the car to move the harness straps around because Miss My-Feet-are-Clearly-an-Indicator-that-I-am -Going-to-be-Bigger-than-a -small-Whale has grown again?

After talking to many people (Thanks Jennifer and Emily), and doing lots of online research, I'm pretty sure that I am going to go with a Britax. I was set on the Marathon but after talking to Jennifer, who has the Boulevard
now, I don't know! But I definitely want it in this color scheme (onyx). The Boulevard is only different from the Marathon in that it has "True Side Impact Protection" which means extra padding on the sides, "Multi-Position Headrest height" which means that the side impact things are adjustable so that they can be moved to correspond to where your child's head sits, "No re-thread harness" which means that with the turn of a knob, the harness is adjusted to the proper height, and the Infant body pillow, which is just some extra pillow padding for smaller babies. Now, to get all that, it's just $30, and on top of the $230 for the Marathon, it barely seems like a stretch, but $260 looks like a lot more than $230. But hopefully, which ever one I get, it should last until she's like 6 years old, or if Little Miss Now-You-Have-to-buy-a-Chevy-Tahoe-and-get-rid-of-that-tiny-Hyundai keeps growing like she is, then in 2 years.
(Oh, and in the 20 minutes it took me to write this post, the Boulevard went up $22, so now it's $285...stupid Amazon.)

Oh, and here are some pictures of her from the past few weeks. She's started rolling around like crazy, and has recently shown that big girls CAN do the splits.