Outgrowing

Let's talk about baby clothes for a minute. They're retarded. The sizes never match properly with the baby's age, making it very difficult to buy appropriate outfits. Now, I realize that we have an enormously large baby (somewhere in the 97% percentile), but I think I would still have trouble fitting his clothes even if he wasn't. When he was born, he was already fitting into 3-6 month sizes, and we've recently moved onto 12 month sizes. He's only two months old! How confusing. Anyway, I do have a feeling that no one's baby ever fits into newborn sizes. Those things are tiny.

Barrett has also recently outgrown his first car seat. The first kind you use for babies is an infant carrier that clips into a base that stays in the car. You've probably seen people carrying their babies around in these. They also clip into a matching stroller, making it easy to bring baby shopping or whatever. Most babies fit into these carriers for quite a while, at least 6 months or so. I've even seen some people still using them for one-year-olds. Not our baby. The carrier was safetied for babies under 22 lbs and shorter than 26" - a length he reached quite a few weeks ago. It was noticeable, too, since his feet were starting to hang off the end.

I'm also thankful that we bought a big cradle for him. Usually, parents will get a bassinet or cradle for keeping the baby in their room or to put in the living room for daytime naps, rather than having to use the big crib for the first few months. Most bassinets are kind of like frilly oval baskets, probably a few feet long. We thought those were a bit fruity, so we ended up buying an actual wooden cradle, which, thankfully, was also about a foot longer than the usual bassinet. That was sweet, because he would have outgrown any bassinet by now, but he's still able to fit into the cradle. In fact, someone lent us a (hideous) bassinet that we kept in the living room, and he outgrew it almsot a month ago - check it out:

Barrett in the hideous bassinet about a month and a half ago.

Definitely running out of head room!

Speaking of outgrowing, here's possibly my favourite picture yet - this is Barrett's first bath, and he's not too sure what to make of all that water. Now he loves baths, although he's also outgrown this little baby bathtub. This means that we have to put him into the big bath. If you've ever held a wet, slippery baby, you'll understand what this entails. He's still too little to sit up on his own, so one of us has to actually get into the bath with him, to make sure that he doesn't just slip away through the water.

Hehe - little balls peeking out there!

Lastly, I have an update on his hands. They've definitely uncurled and started exploring the world. Just the other day, they found each other! Now he's always busily rubbing them together like he's plotting a diabolical master plan. I keep expecting his little pinky to press against his mouth like Dr. Evil.