Getting a Little Easier

One of my biggest resentments about Gus having CP and the accompanying complications is how hard it is to take him places. Things just aren't set up or made for someone his size who can't sit up on his own or walk. We carry around a lot of extra stuff to try to make adaptations. I try not to cringe every single time we go in to a restaurant and are asked, "Would you like a high chair?" And I try to ignore the stares in the restaurant and at the grocery store when Gus is in his infant car seat that he's spilling out of - we call it his pumpkin seat. But he can't support himself in the shopping cart seat and he's long since outgrown the weight limit on the built in infant seats that some of the shopping carts have. And he's WAY too heavy to carry for any distance now. So we have learned that if we get a booth at the restaurant we can sit him at a variety of angles in his pumpkin seat so he's not sticking out in the way of the servers and he's part of the action at the table with us.

Well, Gus has been doing so much better sitting and we tried his little portable high chair again last night and - He Can Sit In It! I can't tell you how much easier this will make things for us.

We have been traveling with his pumpkin seat, his tumble forms chair, and his big wooden table just so we can eat out and also have a place to let him eat and feed himself at where we're staying. Replace 3 big bulky things with one folding travel high chair and you get happy mommies! Anything that makes our lives a little easier is a good thing!

Maybe soon we won't have to pack the van chock full just for 5 days away. Nah, I'll find other things to bring because that's what I do! :) I'm already excited to think we've recovered enough space by using the high chair that I can bring Gus's wagon for Corn Fest.