When you're five months old, everything is either too big or too small.
All Smiles, originally uploaded by ztifhael.
She fell asleep in the grocery cart tonight. Not in the grocery cart, because I am not a bad mother, but in one of those baby seats on the cart.
I like that she does fall asleep in the seat, and that I can buy myself grape soda (don't ask me, I just listen to my stomach's desires) and cookies (okay, and lots of vegetables) in peace. But those seats are only good up to 18 pounds. She weighs about 15 and a half right now. Two and a half more pounds before she has to sit in the cart seat.
That doesn't seem safe somehow. And hey - they put BELTS on the seats now to make them safer. There were no belts when I was a kid. There were no infant seats either, and the government didn't think you needed to be in a booster until you were eight... but maybe those are all good things. Because people can be idiots, and telling them to protect themselves isn't as good as making it a law.