IKEA weekend!

Andy, Carsten, and I headed out to IKEA on Saturday for a much needed final IKEA run. We had a list of things to purchase: kitchen prep table to increase our counter space, chair, futon (that's right - we have a bed for guests!), coat rack, a small shelf, and some other smaller items like extra towels for guests. The good news: we got all of it and we had it delivered on Monday, so someone else had to bring everything up 2.5 flights of stairs. The bad news: now we have to put it all together. We're pretty excited to have the finishing touches close to being done for the apartment, and I think it'll feel a lot nicer once we're totally set up. I'll try to post another round of photos once we have everything put together and in the right place.

Once again, Carsten was a champ at IKEA, especially since we were gone from the apartment from 9 am - 4:30 pm and it took about 1.5 hrs each way on the train to get there. He's so good at sleeping in the baby bjorn and when he's not sleeping he really seems to love looking at everything and everyone, which is very nice for us. And actually, to some extent I think he enjoys being out and about better than he likes hanging out at the house with me. The picture below is Carsten in his winter snowsuit & hat while we were waiting at the train stop to go back home after IKEA. 

Carsten in his winter snowsuit!

In other Carsten related news: he's started trying forward motion, so when he's on his tummy he scoots out where he wants to go and he really tries to get there, which usually involves a slow scooting, army crawl. It's really starting to get interesting - he moved about 3 feet to some new sheets we got at IKEA and was sucking on them in the time it took me to put groceries away (about 5 min). So, I guess it's a good thing that we got a bunch of baby-proofing equipment at IKEA... :) He's also doing a much better job of sitting up by himself and I think he'll master this skill soon. He's also going to be starting other solid foods soon, like carrots and peas, which I'm going to prepare as we were also able to get a food processor on Saturday as well, so we'll be updating you about that soon.