Well, The Sad Day Has Come.

Kayelynn is now forward facing, and I no longer have an extended rear facer. :(

WAHHHHH.

I am VERY sad about this.

I don't have any pictures of her forward facing in her new seat. I'll take some in a few days.

I should be happy though, because WE MADE IT TO FOUR YEARS OLD REAR FACING!!

Well, hello there.

So, I'm slacking and the blog is suffering. Lol.

So. I'm 23 now!! Yay.

For my birthday Brian surprised me with a hotel in Gatlinburg, Tennessee!!

We're leaving on Friday, February 21st.

Obviously we have to take Aaralyn. 

We were going to leave Kayelynn with my mom but I felt bad because she would be missing out.

So, we're taking both the girls. 

Aaralyn is 8 months now!! (Uhm, almost 9. Lol. Told you I'm slacking!)

She has a tooth!!! (And two more coming in.)

We've looked at a few houses. So far we have found nothing!! 

Well, there is one we love.. Only we haven't seen the inside yet. Lol.

We're supposed to be looking at it sometime really soon.

Kayelynn is going to be FOUR soon. AH.

That is hard to believe!!

Okay. Well.. I'll leave you with some pictures.

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Baby stuff!!! (And Kayelynn.)

I torture my child.

Someone on Cafemom just told me that I torture Kayelynn and Paige because they are Rearfacing at 2 and 4..... UHM... Really?

So let me get this straight.

I ERF because it is 500% safer. That's torture?? To make sure they are safe in the car.

That's okay. When we go somewhere I know 100% that they are as safe as possible, and I know they are 500% safer than any other forward facing child.

People, please educate yourselves. Just wait. The law WILL be changed and it will be the LAW to rear face until 2 years old. Then I guess everyone will be torturing their kids.

So excited!

Paige is RFing again and she loves it!! It's at a weird angle... But she still has about 3/4 of an inch left until we HAVE to switch her. :(

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Kayelynn's car seat is an Alpha Elite 65. (NOT an Alpha Omega Elite.) For some reason if you Google it the only thing to pop up is the omega version.

 Rear facing from 5-40 lbs, Forward facing 22-65 lbs and booster mode 40-100lbs. (And you can tell by the pictures she still has a LOT of room height wise to grow.)
I love, love, love her car seat. She's only 22 pounds now, so she will be able to rear face for a while. 

ETA AS OF 1-4-2015

This car seat is not recommended. It makes a deadly booster because of the belt fit. Impossible to recline correctly, and it is so hard to get a good install!

Another Post About Car Seats.

I don't understand what is wrong with parents. This girl I went to school with had her twins at 30 weeks. They are now 10 months old and she keeps posting pictures of them in the car in their new forward facing car seats. Seriously?!!? Not only are they too young to be forward facing, their chest straps are about 2 inches above their legs. Grrrrr.

Kayelynn is 20 months old and still rear facing.. And guess what, she will continue to be until she outgrows the weight limit... Which is 40 pounds... She's about 22 now.

And I hate when people use the excuse that their child's legs touch the seat... Really. Not only are broken legs fixable, unlike a broken neck, they are more comfortable with their legs on the seat than with their legs hanging down.

I really wish doctors would start stressing the importance of extended rear facing instead, doctors are encouraging parents to turn their kids around as soon as they hit that 20 lb mark... Doctor's need to start educating parents. They need to let parents know that at 1 year, a child's neck still isn't strong enough to with stand a car crash.

I saw someone at Wal-mart a while back who had a kid who had to be AT LEAST 2 and was in an infant carrier still. The back of the seat went to the child's neck and their knees were over the bottom. That pisses me off to. People really need to start abiding by the weight and height limits on car seats!!!

Rant over.