Mom2FiveGirls
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This morning DD#5 spilled juice all in her MR, so I took it out to wash it. Well the cover was still too wet when it was time to get ready to go...which normally wouldn't have been a problem because we have an AOE that she still fits in, but a friend of mine is borrowing it (she was in a wreck and doesn't have the money to buy a new seat, so she's borrowing it until she gets a check from the insurance company). The only extra seat I have here is a nbb. So I kept DD#1 in the nbb she's always in now (passenger side second row), put DD#2 in the extra nbb (drivers side second row), and put DD#5 in DD#4's nautilus in the center of the second row. Then I put the straps back in DD#3's nautilus (she's been using it as a hbb for the past couple weeks) and put DD#4 in that, and then let DD#3 use DD#2's TB. Whew...not ideal, but it worked and it was just a short trip (to pick the big girls up from school...2 miles each way).
Well DD#5 FREAKED when I tried to put her in the nautilus. I mean screaming, arching her back, freaking out. I took her out of the truck and calmed her down and asked what was wrong. She said "I want mine seat back! Frontwards is not safe for me! Backwards seat keeps me safe!" When DD#4 moved back to the nautilus (and back FFing) several weeks ago, Ella started asking to be "frontwards" too and saying she didn't like her backwards seat. So we started talking about how much safer she was in a backwards seat how much more comfortable it was, etc. Even Lilly would tell her that she wished she could still be backwards. Apparently we were a little over-enthusiastic about it though... I finally convinced her that she would still be safe in the nautilus and that it was just for today and I'd put her seat back in as soon as the cover was dry. She let me buckle her in without a fight but the whole trip she kept saying "I don't wike dis seat!". I hope its not such a fight when she HAS to move FFing (which likely won't be for another year or more...she's got plenty of room in the MR).
Well DD#5 FREAKED when I tried to put her in the nautilus. I mean screaming, arching her back, freaking out. I took her out of the truck and calmed her down and asked what was wrong. She said "I want mine seat back! Frontwards is not safe for me! Backwards seat keeps me safe!" When DD#4 moved back to the nautilus (and back FFing) several weeks ago, Ella started asking to be "frontwards" too and saying she didn't like her backwards seat. So we started talking about how much safer she was in a backwards seat how much more comfortable it was, etc. Even Lilly would tell her that she wished she could still be backwards. Apparently we were a little over-enthusiastic about it though... I finally convinced her that she would still be safe in the nautilus and that it was just for today and I'd put her seat back in as soon as the cover was dry. She let me buckle her in without a fight but the whole trip she kept saying "I don't wike dis seat!". I hope its not such a fight when she HAS to move FFing (which likely won't be for another year or more...she's got plenty of room in the MR).