ThomasLitchford

We just got home from Sean’s 6-month check-up. I’m happy to report he’s as healthy as can be.

To sort of copy a post John put up a couple months ago, here’s a look at how Sean has changed in the past 6 months as we retire his car seat:

He’s also in the 90th percentile for height and weight, which explains why we’ve been doing a lot of shopping lately. That’s right, we just purchased Stroller Number 3 and Car Seat Number 2. And bought a travel crib. And a new graphics card for the computer.

All of these pieces of infant equipment (OK, not including the graphics card) were necessitated by Sean’s size. He’s about to outgrow the infant car seat, so that required an upgrade to the convertible stage (which, I think, just refers to the fact that it can function as a rear-facing seat until he’s 1 year old and can then be turned around to face the front). Since the travel stroller we had was just a frame that the infant seat plugged into, we needed a new travel stroller.

Being Americans, we were assaulted with an almost unnavigable sea of choice. We consulted the eminently useful Baby Bargains, and we read a lot of Amazon.com reviews. Part of our ultimate decision for the stroller was swayed by Phil Hollenback’s blog post about having a baby in the city. Everything we read pointed to the Maclaren. We opted for the Triumph, a less egregiously expensive model that suits our needs.

The graphics card was also partially Sean’s fault. We discovered a couple weeks ago that our little point-and-shoot digital camera can take short movies. What fun! The only problem is, the integrated graphics processor in the computer doesn’t have the juice to run Windows Movie Maker. So, I upgraded. The good news is, graphics cards are very reasonably priced these days, unless you need a high end gaming card, which I do not. Thankfully.