Winter. Snow. Cold. Baby. New parents.
Some things go together well, others do not. Putting the five things listed above together would fall under the latter category. So far this December we’ve had 2 bouts of snow, with more slated to hit us tonight and this coming weekend. We can hold Peter up to a window and show him this new phenomenon, but that’s the easy part. At some point we have to go outside with him. Then it gets tricky.
You have no doubt seen A Christmas Story. You no doubt think of Ralphie’s little brother Randy primarily as the kid in the snowsuit that is so bundled up he can’t put his arms down. Simply put, if we could get away with doing that, we would. The only problem is that he doesn’t fit into his car seat when we put on more than, say, 2 layers. Ideally, we’d wrap him up in every article of clothing that he hasn’t yet outgrown and have him sit on the lap of whoever isn’t driving, but that is unfortunately illegal.
Some things go together well, others do not. Putting the five things listed above together would fall under the latter category. So far this December we’ve had 2 bouts of snow, with more slated to hit us tonight and this coming weekend. We can hold Peter up to a window and show him this new phenomenon, but that’s the easy part. At some point we have to go outside with him. Then it gets tricky.
You have no doubt seen A Christmas Story. You no doubt think of Ralphie’s little brother Randy primarily as the kid in the snowsuit that is so bundled up he can’t put his arms down. Simply put, if we could get away with doing that, we would. The only problem is that he doesn’t fit into his car seat when we put on more than, say, 2 layers. Ideally, we’d wrap him up in every article of clothing that he hasn’t yet outgrown and have him sit on the lap of whoever isn’t driving, but that is unfortunately illegal. 
We also find ourselves in the dilemma of either hauling him around in his car seat if we are taking him shopping, or extricating him from it and carrying him. Peter is a heavy kid, and in the car seat he’s a beastly load now, so carrying him without the seat is preferable. But if he fits into the seat it means we haven’t bundled him up as we’d want, so if he’s taken out like that he could get pretty chilly. Already I’ve had to go through this decision, and I wound up factoring in how far I’m parked from the store entrance and the wind. You’d think I was determining which club to use on a golf course, not thinking about transporting my son a short distance. At least when I had him outside in the cold for the 8 seconds it took to get to the door he enjoyed the trip…In developmental updates, Peter is getting his butt up in the air and revving his crawling engine with more gusto now. He will be crawling fully in no time.
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