bobandjess99
Senior Community Member
So..I've been waffling here about getting a second seat. i NEED a seat for dh's car. Due to overlapping work schedules he HAS to be able to take dd to achool/pick her up sometimes, as well as the fact that on his days off, if I'm working, he has no way to leave the house.
here's the deal..the seat will have to be installed and then uninstalled every other day or so...like 3 times a week minimum. and, sometimes the time window in which to install it is crazy..like, he would gte home frmo work at 1 am and I would need to have the seat installed by the time I leave for work at 8 am and then he'll be taking it right back out again at 4 pm and then I might have to reinstall it again that night..ugh!
The reason for this is that several times per week he also has to go pick up his older children from their mom's house, and needs every seating position free for that. It is a stupid 4-seater metro, and he has 3 teen boys to go pick up.
DD is about 40 inches, hovers right at 40 lbs, and is 4.5 years old.
I'm so torn, because if it is going to be a harnessed seat, it has to be a HWH, or else it needs to be a booster. Which I am so not okay with, but I'm not sure I have another choice. I love the frontier, but who on earth would install that thing 3 times per week? even the nauti, which is a much easier seat to install for the most part, despite being heavy...ugh...I think I'm just really lazy, but just the thought of constantly having to install seats is making me very grumpy. The apex, as a harnessed seat ( dd has a good inch and a half left) might have been perfect, its so light, but there are no headrests in the back, so she'd have to use that seat in the front.
* sigh* I thought about letting her use her nauti just as a booster...but the fit is really NOt good on her...so i don't knwo if I'm confortable with that either...maybe a vivo? o have no way locally to try that one out though....
Heck, the stupid car is a deathtrap anyway, why am I even caring? What good is a carseat when the car is flattened like a pancake?
Geez...I'm really grumpy.
but seriosuly..what would you do if you have to constantly re-install a seat several times per week in this situation? harnessed seat? which one? booster? which one?
New car is not an easy or quick option..although we have talked about getting a third vehicle, a minivan, so we can leave the seats installed AND have enough seating positions for the older boys...but that plan would take time to implement, as we have no money and lots of bills....
here's the deal..the seat will have to be installed and then uninstalled every other day or so...like 3 times a week minimum. and, sometimes the time window in which to install it is crazy..like, he would gte home frmo work at 1 am and I would need to have the seat installed by the time I leave for work at 8 am and then he'll be taking it right back out again at 4 pm and then I might have to reinstall it again that night..ugh!
The reason for this is that several times per week he also has to go pick up his older children from their mom's house, and needs every seating position free for that. It is a stupid 4-seater metro, and he has 3 teen boys to go pick up.
DD is about 40 inches, hovers right at 40 lbs, and is 4.5 years old.
I'm so torn, because if it is going to be a harnessed seat, it has to be a HWH, or else it needs to be a booster. Which I am so not okay with, but I'm not sure I have another choice. I love the frontier, but who on earth would install that thing 3 times per week? even the nauti, which is a much easier seat to install for the most part, despite being heavy...ugh...I think I'm just really lazy, but just the thought of constantly having to install seats is making me very grumpy. The apex, as a harnessed seat ( dd has a good inch and a half left) might have been perfect, its so light, but there are no headrests in the back, so she'd have to use that seat in the front.
* sigh* I thought about letting her use her nauti just as a booster...but the fit is really NOt good on her...so i don't knwo if I'm confortable with that either...maybe a vivo? o have no way locally to try that one out though....
Heck, the stupid car is a deathtrap anyway, why am I even caring? What good is a carseat when the car is flattened like a pancake?
Geez...I'm really grumpy.
but seriosuly..what would you do if you have to constantly re-install a seat several times per week in this situation? harnessed seat? which one? booster? which one?
New car is not an easy or quick option..although we have talked about getting a third vehicle, a minivan, so we can leave the seats installed AND have enough seating positions for the older boys...but that plan would take time to implement, as we have no money and lots of bills....