We bought a second car seat this weekend. We have one for each car now. That way, we won't have to go to the trouble of removing and reinstalling a car seat if we take a different car.
We already had one car seat, because we were required to have one in order to get our foster care license for young children. We'd bought a "convertible" car seat, meaning it can be back-facing for babies, then turned around to be forward-facing for bigger kids. I think that the one we got can hold kids up to 45 or 50 pounds. That's a really big kid, by the way.
The car seat that we bought this weekend is one of those baby car seats where you can remove the seat part from the base and carry the baby into the store/restaurant/whatever without unstrapping her. It only holds babies up to 22 pounds, but that's still pretty big, in my opinion, and until Elise can sit up on her own, I think that the removable seat will be handy.
Interesting fact that Husband pointed out to me: car seats expire. Turns out that the plastic slowly deteriorates and eventually the seat is considered unsafe. The convertible car seat that we bought about a year ago expires in 2015. So the seat lasts long enough for one or maybe two children, but you can't use it forever.
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