Gates and Car Seats

We have made some recent baby improvements around our house lately. Now that little Alex is getting extremely active and curious, we have finally done some baby proofing. First we bought a gate to protect Alex from the stairs (or is it to protect the stairs from Alex?) and we got some covers for all of our outlets. She doesn't seem to mind the gate, although it bothers Gir, especially when he wants to go downstairs but finds himself blocked. We also have finally gotten a new car-seat for Alex. She was starting to get too long for  her infant car seat and she was getting too heavy for Mommy and Daddy to carry around in it. So, we ordered her a Recaro baby seat (which designs seats for race cars, can you think of who picked it out :) ) which is convertible and will be able to face forward when she is ready. She's not quite sure of what to think about it yet, but hopefully it will be more comfortable for her. We (mostly I) call it her throne because it is so big! She almost takes up the entire back seat of our Jeep now and when she waves her arms, it looks like she's giving blessings to her subjects :). I can't believe that my little baby is big enough for such a big car seat and I hope that she grows to enjoy it.