Cup holder?

mburks26

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• Apr 22, 2010

• #1

Are there any cup holders that can hold a Mc Donalds cup etc that can be seat belted in or latched in next to a booster seat? Would go in middle with lap only belt the booster outboard with lap shoulder belt.
She has about an inch left in the GN and our booster is the Vivo. She can't mange the cup and food. Normally when we do the one day a week booster training the GN gets left in the middle and she uses that but on Fridays now we have her cousin and she now uses the GN in booster mode (her other boosters were in a crash and her parents dont care wont replace so they are not allowed in my car) Her toso is too long for the GN in harness plus she will use the cup holder. Fridays is our out to eat days as its really busy. Turning around and handed the cup to my dd is not safe for me and its getting to be a pain in the neck.
Or should I get dd cousion her own booster to keep her when shes with us? I dislike the turbos though any other good cheap booster with cup holder that could fit next to the GN to do 3 across in 2003 Ford F150. I buckle them in so that not an issue.

 

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Maedze

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• Apr 22, 2010

• #2

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Custom-Accesssories-CU91112-Beverage-Holder/dp/B000B8J6PG/ref=pd_sim_dbs_auto_4"]Amazon.com: Custom Accesssories CU91112 Large Beverage Holder: Automotive[/ame] What about one of those? You just mount it on the door frame.

 

mommycat

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• Apr 22, 2010

• #3

I've used that style as well (slightly different design). FYI a potential issue which may not be an issue in the back: I used it in the driver's seat and if I needed to put the window down I had to lift the drink when I put it back up. Otherwise, the cupholder would come up along with the glass and I would have liquid all over my lap and floor.

 

mburks26

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• Apr 22, 2010

• #4

Wouldnt that be a projectile object though? it would be on my dds right her cup holder has to be on the left. She has to sit behind me when in booster. Unless she can reach across with her left hand. That wouldnt be bad if the belt stays put right.

 

mommycat

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• Apr 22, 2010

• #5

It would be a projectile, but so is the cup, and the food. *shrug*

 

christineka

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• Apr 22, 2010

• #6

The sk side rider is a safe attachment. I don't know how well it holds mcdonald's cups or whether it would work well with the nautilus. It clips to the fabric on the car seat. Why not just bring a bottle of water? (It's healthier than soda and easy to bring along.) My kids also like the apple juice at mcdonalds which come in the juice boxes that are small. My kids like to just stuff their drinks on the sides of their seats. In the car, dd2 is generally the only one allowed to have non water beverages because she will neither spill, nor get sick.

 

Jennifer mom to my 7

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• Apr 22, 2010

• #7

christineka said:

The sk side rider is a safe attachment. I don't know how well it holds mcdonald's cups or whether it would work well with the nautilus. It clips to the fabric on the car seat. Why not just bring a bottle of water? (It's healthier than soda and easy to bring along.) My kids also like the apple juice at mcdonalds which come in the juice boxes that are small. My kids like to just stuff their drinks on the sides of their seats. In the car, dd2 is generally the only one allowed to have non water beverages because she will neither spill, nor get sick.

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I don't think her dd would be able to open the bottle of water. AT least not that easily. No clue about the cupholder though.

 

mommycat

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• Apr 22, 2010

• #8

You could try to transfer her drink to a well-sealed sippy cup and teach her to tuck it in her carseat/booster, beside her bum/leg. DS1 does this in the seats which do not have a cupholder.

 

mburks26

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• Apr 22, 2010

• #9

Cup holder is for use with her booster not the GN she can reach the GNs cup holder when using it as a harness seat or when shes in the booster and the GN is in the middle still installed.

She can't open bottles, she can but with her teeth and well we are not allowing that don't need to crack a tooth.

Soda with a sippy cup spews everywere. She refues to drink from a sippy anyway. She can't mange a cup and food in her booster she puts her bag on one side and then theres not enough room to put the cup on the other side. She has very little side to side room with the Vivo.

Food and MC D cups are not hard so I don't think that will give anyone a ouch shouldnt be in the car. lol

I guess just get the other a booster
really undoing the whole GN once a week is getting to be a pain in the rear.
Got to move it outboard and undo the harness. Then redo all of it.
I'll start another thread about which booster.

 

christineka

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• Apr 22, 2010

• #10

The sk side rider is just this thingie that clips to the fabric of the car seat/booster fabric. It does not necessarily have to go on the side. I actually bought them for our vivos. There is very little room to the side of the seats in my van. The side rider works fine on the vivo and can be clipped towards the front of the seat. I think I remember someone saying they used safety pins and pinned it to the side of the seat.

 

vonfirmath

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• Apr 22, 2010

• #11

mommycat said:

You could try to transfer her drink to a well-sealed sippy cup and teach her to tuck it in her carseat/booster, beside her bum/leg. DS1 does this in the seats which do not have a cupholder.

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This is what I do for my son's drinks (he's 32 months) because I don't trust him not to spill. Then he tucks it between his legs or on the side when not drinking. (or, and this is one reason I will miss RFing, he pushes it down between his legs against the seat)

PS take the valve out of the sippy cup if it is being propelled up out of the top

 

mburks26

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• Apr 22, 2010

• #12

do you think this would work sunshine kids stroller thing it has loops on both ends I could slip the middle seat belt though it or latch (not using the latch anyway) then she can have the cup in one holder and then put her bag in the middle.
http://sunshinekidsbaby.com/proddetail.asp?prod=ZM19321

this one doesn't strap in does it? http://sunshinekidsbaby.com/proddetail.asp?prod=ZM22324

of course only extra cloths and or blanket in the middle no hard stuff.

I should have added dd only has a full hand on her left side that is why its hard to mange the cup and her food with out a cup holder.

 

Last edited: Apr 22, 2010

mommycat

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• Apr 22, 2010

• #13

Argh, lost post. In short:
I have used a blanket in the middle to make a "shelf" to rest food on. Also, might be able to find a sippy to work with pop, like a First Years straw sippy, if they still make these.

 

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nursingnellie

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• May 12, 2010

• #14

I know this is an old thread but I was looking at cupholder stuff and came across it...

If you haven't gotten anything yet, One Step Ahead/Leaps and Bounds has this:

http://www.onestepahead.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=534908&parentCategoryId=85184&categoryId=85218

It straps in w/ the seatbelt and has a lid they say can be used as a table. I'm actually ordering one right now, so that's why I felt compelled to respond to your post!