juliasdad
08-12-2003, 11:25 AM
Hi, all-
Starting in Sept., our little one (12 month) will be headed off for daycare while mommy and (hopefully) daddy return to work.
We're currently in a Britax RA in the Odyssey. Here's the upcoming situation:
1) Since Mommy's a teacher and her work hours are early, Daddy will drop off DD at daycare and Mommy will pick her up. Hence, we'll need a car seat in both of our vehicles.
2) DD will be at daycare two days per week. Two other days, she'll be at Grandma and Grandpa's house. So we'll need them to have a seat. The fifth day of the week, she's at Aunt P's house (a friend and stay-at-home-mom to 4)... hopefully, Aunt P has some sort of seat.
So, at a minimum we're looking at 2 more car seats if we don't want to fuss with reinstalling and moving them from car to car.
Since she'll be a year old, and especially since she's way off the charts size-wise (she's at 50th percentile for an 18-month-old), I'm thinking the best option would be belt-positioning boosters for the "extra" seats... we could then use them as her full-time seat when she outgrows the RA.
Would someone please check my thinking on that? Does it make sense? And are we really looking at buying 2 of these??? I can't think of another good solution. We also need to be careful with spending, as Daddy's been part of the high-tech unemployed for the last few months and we're *assuming* that something will come along soon.
If this kind of booster is what we're looking for, what are the top picks? I know the Ultra CarGo gets good reviews... others?
Thanks,
-dan
Starting in Sept., our little one (12 month) will be headed off for daycare while mommy and (hopefully) daddy return to work.
We're currently in a Britax RA in the Odyssey. Here's the upcoming situation:
1) Since Mommy's a teacher and her work hours are early, Daddy will drop off DD at daycare and Mommy will pick her up. Hence, we'll need a car seat in both of our vehicles.
2) DD will be at daycare two days per week. Two other days, she'll be at Grandma and Grandpa's house. So we'll need them to have a seat. The fifth day of the week, she's at Aunt P's house (a friend and stay-at-home-mom to 4)... hopefully, Aunt P has some sort of seat.
So, at a minimum we're looking at 2 more car seats if we don't want to fuss with reinstalling and moving them from car to car.
Since she'll be a year old, and especially since she's way off the charts size-wise (she's at 50th percentile for an 18-month-old), I'm thinking the best option would be belt-positioning boosters for the "extra" seats... we could then use them as her full-time seat when she outgrows the RA.
Would someone please check my thinking on that? Does it make sense? And are we really looking at buying 2 of these??? I can't think of another good solution. We also need to be careful with spending, as Daddy's been part of the high-tech unemployed for the last few months and we're *assuming* that something will come along soon.
If this kind of booster is what we're looking for, what are the top picks? I know the Ultra CarGo gets good reviews... others?
Thanks,
-dan