Lex is so good-natured most of the time, but he does get a bit cranky and weepy around 4 pm every day.  Usually I’m trying to make dinner as we’re waiting for Tim to come home from work, and Lex just wants to be held.  So as a compromise, we bought him this new chair that attaches to our kitchen island.  He can now be up at my level and can watch what I’m doing in the kitchen without me having to struggle to hold him for an hour.  Yesterday was our first attempt at this, and he seemed to be pretty content.

Chair installation in the morning:

And here he’s stirring later that evening, “just like mommy”: