In just a few weeks we'll have a Ford Fusion, a Chevy Malibu, and three little girls. We love the girls to bits, but we also like our fairly gas-efficient cars. This means we'll be squeezing the girls together, so I started researching skinny car seats.
They make them, but the brand known for its skinniness is $280 a seat. I popped out the tape measure and started scouring the internet for narrow seats. In the adoption forums, folks self-identify according the age and/or adoption date of their child. Car seat fanatics list the brand and model of their equipment. This search also led me to threads like "How can people not know that car seats expire!" Well, I was one of the uninformed.
Sapphire was due for a new seat, so Mom and Dad decided to take care of birthday gifts for both of our September girls and get matching seats. I found narrow, 17" wide, $39 each Cosco Sceneras (they have model names like cars!) for the little girls, and, after much surfing, ordered an 11" Bubble Bum for Pearl. That should leave room for Pearl to buckle herself, though the Bubble Bum is tricky with its belt fasteners. If you don't know, the Bubble Bum is an inflatable booster seat. Pearl has worked it out by leaving the thing buckled and scooting herself in and out of it by pulling on the belt itself.
Jasper has decided that instead of my car and his car, we're going to have a girls car and a grown up car, so the seats will go where the girls go.
*Update: this Bubble Bum was not all that great after several weeks of use. We ended up switching it for a slim Harmony booster from Walmart (it doesn't have a cup holder, so it fits between the two bigger carseats). The trouble with this Bubble But was that red thing you see on the side. You have to either wrangle the belt into it each time, or leave the belt buckled and wiggle into it each time. Neither is ideal.
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