We have a car seat!

My ILs are in town, which means no time for blogging, but since my husband is now taking my FIL on a tour of San Diego's sources for tar removal solvents since his walk on the beaches of La Jolla this afternoon turned sticky, I have time to update the blog to say that yes, we did buy a car seat.

We bought a Graco Safe Seat in Fusion. We were in hot debate over the Safe Seat (which has greater height/weight limits but no Consumer Reports crash test results) or the Graco SnugRide (which has lower H/W limits but excellent Consumer Reports test results). The Safe Seat won out over the SnugRide because Mistah C is a ginormous person who was 30 pounds at one year of age and as such we're expecting this kid to be on the bigger end of the scale. We had a choice of black/red/gray and gray/blue and we picked gray/blue.

Anyway, we are officially baby product consumers now. Thanks go to my ILs, whose great and recent experience with car seats which made the shopping experience more balanced.

Also, if you can get to a baby store that offers a faux car back seat in the store to try and install the demo seats on, it is worth it, even if you have to tell people to stop touching the seat and helping you so you can actually try it yourself. Plus you might run into someone in the store with a baby in the same exact seat and you can ask them about it.