...because she's 1.5 ounces from being too heavy to rear-face in our Radian which is retroactively rated to 40 lbs. rear-facing.
I told her she can ride rear-facing tomorrow, since she is (clothed, on the post office scale) still 1.5 ounces under the weight limit, since she REALLY REALLY wants to rear-face, but I can't weigh her every day, so that's it. I got a RF Boulevard in for her little sister (the 15 month old) on the passenger side where her seat used to be. We'll see if, after tomorrow, her sister (her 3 year old sister) is willing to rear-face again, or if it will be too much of a struggle... I think if she sees big sis doing it she might be willing, which is great since she has more than 2 1/2 lbs. before she'll outgrow it. I'd like to rear-face her, but I'm not going to do it if she'll scream every time we get in the car. She's 3, almost 3 1/2, she's been FF for a year and almost a half now. I guess I'm okay with it. I have to be since we really just can't do it if she hates it at this point. If she does I'll just put the other Radian back in the way they were. But I'm hoping she won't.
If this becomes a longer-term thing, having two RF again, I may have to see if I can get the Boulevard in the center instead, for ease of loading, but for now it was much easier to do it this way (since I don't have to take out and put in the seatbelt-installed Radian in the center.)
I just wish someone had thought of the post office scale sooner (thanks to whoever did that!) so Emma could have had a few more weeks of rear-facing (she's been gaining weight like crazy.) I'm surprised at how much she really, really, REALLY wants to "ride facing the back." (But then, we've talked about how safe it is, which is probably why!)
I told her she can ride rear-facing tomorrow, since she is (clothed, on the post office scale) still 1.5 ounces under the weight limit, since she REALLY REALLY wants to rear-face, but I can't weigh her every day, so that's it. I got a RF Boulevard in for her little sister (the 15 month old) on the passenger side where her seat used to be. We'll see if, after tomorrow, her sister (her 3 year old sister) is willing to rear-face again, or if it will be too much of a struggle... I think if she sees big sis doing it she might be willing, which is great since she has more than 2 1/2 lbs. before she'll outgrow it. I'd like to rear-face her, but I'm not going to do it if she'll scream every time we get in the car. She's 3, almost 3 1/2, she's been FF for a year and almost a half now. I guess I'm okay with it. I have to be since we really just can't do it if she hates it at this point. If she does I'll just put the other Radian back in the way they were. But I'm hoping she won't.
If this becomes a longer-term thing, having two RF again, I may have to see if I can get the Boulevard in the center instead, for ease of loading, but for now it was much easier to do it this way (since I don't have to take out and put in the seatbelt-installed Radian in the center.)
I just wish someone had thought of the post office scale sooner (thanks to whoever did that!) so Emma could have had a few more weeks of rear-facing (she's been gaining weight like crazy.) I'm surprised at how much she really, really, REALLY wants to "ride facing the back." (But then, we've talked about how safe it is, which is probably why!)