zeo2ski
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Last week I was cooking dinner thinking about that post about this site turning someone into a gear junkie and thinking "I'm glad I don't need spare seats just to have spares" in my situation and my DH calls. He was out on a job, got out HOURS early and came upon a lady broken down on the highway, and it was our former neighbor/landlord's sister. So DH helps her get a tow and everything but meanwhile she had been on her way back to pick up her 4 kids from her sister--who had those 4 plus her own 2 all at the grandpa's pond (no house there). So now neighbor and 6 kids are stranded with a small sedan and only 2 HBBs. So DH told neighbor I'd come and bring seats With the seats I had, there was the potential to make it work IF everybody fit. Then as I'm getting ready to load up the seats and head over, she calls back and her other friend was coming to take neighbors 2 kids (along with her car and HBBs) to an important karate event they were supposed to be at. So now there were only 4 kids (plus my 2) but the HBBs were out of the mix.
I brought the scale.
DS2 was 21.5 lbs so he got the snugride22 with more than 1" over his head.Phew!
Kid 3 is 5.5 and weighed 75 lbs. Thank goodness I had a RN! He had maybe an inch of harness height to spare. Phew!
Kid 2 is 7y5m and was 64 lbs. She fit with a smidge of harness room left in the Boulevard! I wasn't totally shocked until I realized just how old she is (I only see these kids every few months, and in my head, she's still 5 lol). Phew!
Kid 1 is 12 or 13. No seat.
Kid 4 is 2 weeks away from turning 4 and was 37 lbs so she got the other BLVD.
Then my DS1 RF'd in the brand new MyRide which I was about to return.
So everybody fit, and most of them just BARELY. I did mess up a little though; I could have RF'd kid 4 in the MyRide and DS1 could have RF'd in the BLVD (34.5 lbs and CLOSE to the height limit) because that way I could have tethered all the FFers. As it was, the 7 year old in the BLVD wound up untethered because of where she was, which I realized later she didn't NEED to be there but that's just where it wound up because I was seeing if she'd even fit in the seat--did I mention that the minute I got to the pond it downpoured with thunder and lightning? LOL it was pretty hurried...
Anyway, just wanted to share that a 75 lb child can fit in the RN by height, and a 64 lb (7+ y.o.!!) child can fit in the BLVD by height. And a 15 mos old in the SR22 lol.
I brought the scale.
DS2 was 21.5 lbs so he got the snugride22 with more than 1" over his head.Phew!
Kid 3 is 5.5 and weighed 75 lbs. Thank goodness I had a RN! He had maybe an inch of harness height to spare. Phew!
Kid 2 is 7y5m and was 64 lbs. She fit with a smidge of harness room left in the Boulevard! I wasn't totally shocked until I realized just how old she is (I only see these kids every few months, and in my head, she's still 5 lol). Phew!
Kid 1 is 12 or 13. No seat.
Kid 4 is 2 weeks away from turning 4 and was 37 lbs so she got the other BLVD.
Then my DS1 RF'd in the brand new MyRide which I was about to return.
So everybody fit, and most of them just BARELY. I did mess up a little though; I could have RF'd kid 4 in the MyRide and DS1 could have RF'd in the BLVD (34.5 lbs and CLOSE to the height limit) because that way I could have tethered all the FFers. As it was, the 7 year old in the BLVD wound up untethered because of where she was, which I realized later she didn't NEED to be there but that's just where it wound up because I was seeing if she'd even fit in the seat--did I mention that the minute I got to the pond it downpoured with thunder and lightning? LOL it was pretty hurried...
Anyway, just wanted to share that a 75 lb child can fit in the RN by height, and a 64 lb (7+ y.o.!!) child can fit in the BLVD by height. And a 15 mos old in the SR22 lol.