Finally

Caitlin is finally forward facing and loving it.

Poor little girl was so excited. =)

 

Forward Facing Carseat

The law in NC states that a child must be 1 yr old AND 20 lbs before facing the car seat forward. Poor little Caitlin is 19 months and 19 lbs. But since Jon was taking the Accord so he could haul the motorcycle and kitty I didn't have a choice. Our little Acura doesn't accommodate rear-facing car seats. So Caitlin had her 1st time (we put her forward 1x before when we tinted the windows in the Accord, but it was only for a short ride.) facing forward. As you can tell from the pictures, she loved it.

It's a little difficult getting the kids into the back with a 2-door car, but it's only until we get to TN and then we can put the car seats back. I'm tempted to put her car seat in rear facing again. It's safer and since she can see Dominic she hasn't really minded so far. We'll see what happens. Also if you look closely you can see the top of Dominic's head is almost over the top of his car seat. So he's almost ready for a booster. He's growing up so fast. =(

School & a big girl seat

Both Dominic and Caitlin had big moments today.

Dominic has heard me talking with my friends about preschool and he decided that he wanted to go to school just like Daddy and his friends were doing. To put him off I told him that I was going to home school him. It didn't put him off and he's been bugging me almost every day since to start school. So on tax-free day we went to the store and made a big production of buying school supplies and today we had our first day of school.

Dominic LOVED it. He was so upset when I told him that school was over. And as soon as Jon got home he had to tell him all about it. He wouldn't sit still for the picture so this is the best one I took.

Caitlin also had a "growing" moment. She is getting so big that it was getting difficult to carry her around in her car seat. So today we switched her to the big girl car seat. It is still rear facing, but doesn't come out of the car. So now she's in a big girl seat just like her brother. When I put her in Dominic was in his seat already and they sat there giggling at each other.