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AmandaJLewis
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another carseatish question- boosters
with all this talk, and EJ getting close to outgrowing her marathon by height I need a new seat for my car in the next 6 months or so. When do you feel comfortable with moving from a 5pt harness to a seatbelt/highback booster? I am trying to decide if it is justified to spend the extra $100 on a seat that has the 5-pt harness or if she will only be able to use it for like a minute before she is going into the seatbelt. I also expect to also get a small booster seat for the grandparents to use when they take her, just a backless booster. But for daily use I would like something more substantial. Also, she is 5 and average height/weight. I just can't recall what those are right now. she is over 40lbs though.
Re: another carseatish question- boosters
I don't know when we will feel comfortable doing it! In dh's car we have the Argos which goes to 70lbs as 5 point. However we HATE the straps/buckles and dh is already asking about just using it as a booster. We were so spoiled with our evenflo because it is a million times easier to use. But none of the 5 point/boosters seemed to be as easy.
So anyways I'm not sure. If ours was easy to use I would stick with it for awhile but not sure how long we will. We still have the evenflo in my car but will need something else since its limit is 45lbs and she is 40. We will definitely have to research the next seat more. The one for dh's car we had to buy quickly after an car accident.
My sister went from the Marathon to the Frontier 85 when he was EJ's age. He is tall and skinny and now 7 and is still using the 5pt harness.
Jake - 1.15.08
Liam - 5.17.11
this is what we have in Kevin's car. I am just not sure I love it enough to get another... and our favorite neighbor is all the way booster seating now (at 6) so she is well aware of the next level.
Caileigh is 7 & still fits the Graco Nautilus (I think its up to 65 lbs) in the 5 pt. Once in a blue moon if we have to scramble she sits in a backless booster but holds the belt all the time b/c it cuts across her neck. Once she gets to 65 lbs or outgrows the nautilus we'll go backless but I just tell her it doesn't matter one bit to me what other parents & kids are doing, this is her seat until she outgrows it.
How time flies! Caileigh (9), Keira (6) & Eamon (3)
We now have a Graco Nautilus and a Graco Argos. Avoid the Argos. The lower buckle is super annoying and fussy to use. I would get another Nautilus if we needed another seat.
Heather is still in a 5-point harness. I have no current plans to switch her. She's shorter for her age than EJ, but there is so much room for to grow height-wise, I can't imagine that EJ would outgrow the seat for height very quickly.
definitely ditto the Argos comment as that is our issue. I actually planned to get the nautilus but they didn't have any. It didn't even look like they sold it so I had been wondering if it was being phased out?
DH has a highback booster in his truck for DD (because he ordered it without checking with me first.) She rides with me 99% of the time, so I didn't make a huge fuss about him keeping it. Still, there's a MAJOR difference between the seatbelt holding a kid in and the 5 pt harness straps keeping a kid in. If DD falls asleep in the high back booster, she can still lean to the front or the sides a lot. It doesn't look safe or comfortable at all. That's the major reason I'm not comfortable with it - they just don't seem very secure.