Friday, February 20, 2009

Car seat puzzle solved

Radian car seats do not fit in the third row of a sienna except with latch and there is only one spot on the passenger's side. So, here's the temporary solution:
Middle row: Karen rear-facing Avenue, Baby Rear-facing Tribute, Caitlyn Vivo
Third row:
Ben Rear-facing Boulevard, Eric Forward facing Marathon, and Emily in a booster that fits.

Peace of mind:) That's just two seats for a grand total of $400-$500. I will go play with seats next week. Maybe I can get that down to only one new seat. I played with the seats today. In the back row I can get Rear-facing tribute, Forward facing scenera, and turbobooster. The issue with that situation is 1. Karen has to go forward facing, which would be okay at 4.5 years of age, I'd just rather go to 5 since she's so tiny and she can. 2. The tribute and the scenera are the seats that will fit a newborn, so it still leaves me to buy a new seat, but I could buy a less expensive one. I just don't really like that option. I like fancy shmancy seats better.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

News!

It has been awhile again... The great news is that we found and bought our new to us sienna! It is great to drive it around and such. I'm just now worrying about how to get 6 car seats to fit. I've measured the back seat and figured car seat math problems. I've even looked to the future and predicted who would sit in what in which way. I've decided I'll worry about 4 years from now in 3.5 years. Hopefully the multimac will be out by then and solve all of my problems. Actually, I am now wishing it would be out in a month or two because it would solve all the car seat problems now. According to the math one Sunshine Kids' radian rear-facing in the back, middle seat will make it all fit. The problem is that noe in the car seat geek world seems to have ever even attempted to install the radian rear-facing in that position and radians are well known for being finicky seats that are incompatible for various vehicles in various spots in various positions. I need to just get out, find a radian, and see if it will work.

Other great news is that we sold the aerostar. Although, that bench space was great... I'm glad to have a nice vehicle now though.

Benjamin celebrated his 2nd birthday. He just loved opening gifts. He's not too wild about any of them anymore, though. He'd rather play with packing peanuts, toothpaste, and munch all day. Aaron also celebrated a birthday. He's still wild about his Ocarina of Time, however. He plays and plays. Well, when he is free anyway. His latest project is to build yet another computer for another relative.

We've just been hanging about, cleaning house lately. The kids are up to 2 digit math and think it is fun. Today we did addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Eric is the most enthusiastic about these math problems too. Its crazy that if he were in school he'd be sitting with a bunch of kids learning to count to 100.