Proof that a year has passed

Daddy is finally getting motivated enough to remove the infant seat and install the toddler car seat in Otto the car. He's probably borderline on the weight limit, but it's been very hard for me to give up the convenience of carrying the seat back and forth. It's also been nice to have a seat that easily straps into other people's cars when we're out visiting. It's been on plane and car from Chicago to Mississippi to New York to Virginia.

But we have the new seat and it's ready to go, so it's probably going to be installed this afternoon. To mark the occasion, I took a couple photos of Theo yesterday after his last ride in the infant seat.

For comparison, here he is just less than a year ago, coming home from the hospital, his first trip in the seat:



I had to check the manual to make sure it was rated for a kid who weighed just a tad over 5 lb at the time.

Here he is yesterday, after his last ride in the seat. He may take a while to get used to the new one, but I'm guessing he'll be more comfortable: