advice

so don't wash your carseat cover if you can help it. not because trying to figure out how to take
the carseat off is unnecessarily maddening but because while you have the carseat not in the car the little person who normally goes in the car may have a total meltdown. probably because the carseat is not in the carcar and that in itself is disturbing but mostly because the carseat is evidence of a car. and as you can see, once owen got the car in his head he demanded to be let out of homehome and set free to go in the carcar. that is, until he had his milkmilkmilkmilk.

and the other reason not to wash the carseat is that the carseat is not in the car. which is an offshoot of the reason above, but in this case distressing not for the little person but for the big person that is on the verge of an anxiety attack while the little person sleeps because if something happens and big person has to take little person somewhere she's screwed. so big person just kept with the mantra: sleep owen, sleep, baby, sleep. and big person didn't feel like she could breathe until she had a getaway car. apparently, like mother like son.

also, buy a dustbuster if you don't already have one. because even if you don't need to suck up joe's o's all day long they are amazing for cleaning up coffee grounds. or the undersides of carseats.

here's a good one. if you make key lime pie for a friend because it's the only known dessert she likes and then you are stuck with an entire pie and want to break the cycle of having pie for breakfast give a piece to all of your neighbors. be sure to include a scoop of the fresh whipped cream with a touch of vanilla. you get elevated to favorite neighbor status and they don't mind if you leave the trash out too long and offer to walk the dog for you if you are too busy or tired.

final advice: when all else fails add water. more on this later. pictures too.