Samuel has officially outgrown his Baby Bjorn

Julia is going to New York for the next few days and in anticipation of her trip Samuel and I did some chocolate and tacky souvenir shopping.  In order to do this we had to take the metro so I transported Samuel in his baby bjorn.  As we were at the chocolate shop watching the woman complete our order Samuel began to kick his legs and I discovered(rather painfully) that Samuel's legs have reached a very sensitive area of my body when he is hanging from the baby bjorn. Needless to say I spent most of the trip with one arm holding Samuel's legs still.

One of the things Julia will be picking up in New York is a baby carrier that attaches similar to a backpack so his legs will only be able to kick us in the back.

Our travels this morning highlighted the best and the worst of living in Paris/any big city.  In order to complete our trip we had to be on 5 trains.  The first two were rather full but in both carriages a person offered us their seat.  On the next two trains there were plenty of seats and we were able to sit without issue.  On the return train, which was surprisingly full, a young lady offered us her seat.  I politely declined as the two men who were seated directly in front of us had immediately closed their eyes and tilted their heads and pretended to be asleep as soon as they saw us enter the carriage.  So I did a bad thing and stood as close to the two men as I could with Samuel's legs occasionally kicking them in the shoulders and chest.  They kept their eyes closed the entire trip(a total of 8 stops).