This posting is actually 3 weeks overdue.
With the boys ever increasing in size (they just won’t stop growing!) it was getting harder & harder to carry them around in their infant car seats. We started leaving the infant seats in the vehicle when running errands and the boys’ feet were really bumping up against the backseat. Even though they did not yet outgrow the weight & height maximums of their infant seats we decided that it was probably time to move them into the next step: convertible car seats. The boys still have to be rear facing while riding in these but they are much larger than the infant seats and give them a little more room. They are also easier to get the boys in & out of, since they remain in the car.
I did my research and decided on the Britax Boulevard 70 CS model (thank you to my good friend – who is due at the beginning of July with her first little girl – who let me borrow her Baby Bargains book!!). They will be in these seats for quite a while now so we decided it was worth the investment. My parents wanted to help purchase the boys these car seats for their 1st birthday gifts (as they did with my nephew) so they gave us a good portion of the money towards them. I found them the cheapest on www.amazon.com and was able to get free 2-day shipping! They arrived quickly and on the following Saturday (May 21st) – Cory and I opened up the boxes and installed them in my vehicle. They are bigger than their infant car seats but still fit well in my vehicle. I absolutely love the color & pattern I chose (Silver Birch). One of my favorite things about them is the lower LATCH connectors that Britax put around the lower LATCH locks – it makes it 100 times easier than their infant car seats to latch & unlatch when moving them between vehicles.
The boys had their first ride in them on that Saturday afternoon when we made our weekly trip to Wal-Mart. They are working really for us so far and we have not had any issues.
Just one more sign that my “babies” are growing up!
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