1st Time Sitting on my Own in a Restaurant

All this while, everytime we go out to eat, Gabe will either be on my lap or lying down on a sofa seat while we eat. And we take turns for that matter...today, happiness. Terry & I could eat our dinner together, while we both entertained Gabe.

All thanks to this seat harness/support i saw at Babies R Us. I thought, hmm, this could be useful for us since Gabe isn't that stable sitting on his own yet..and in Japan, their baby seats do not have the seat belts 95% of the time. I'm not sure why. It makes life really hard for people who have young children, they could easily have fallen out of the chair. And perhaps that's why you see so many strollers in restaurants.

So, we got a chance to use the harness today at Volks. And...it was magic...pure heaven. It has been so so long since we could have our dinner in peace. Gabe was super well behaved once we strapped him in. Gave him tissue paper, bread, fruit puffs, yogurt. He sat there playing like a good lil boy smiling at us mostly....This harness is gonna be with me everywhere we go now. New bestie.

It's super easy to use, just put the harness flat on the chair, put Gabe on top of it, then buckle front n back..ta dahhhhh

Again...one of the best decisions we ever made for Gabe....