Car Seat Sale!

Quick Fact Question: Do you know what that clip on your child's seat is for or where the correct place for it to be placed...see the end for the answer!

I'm done trying to get my tush between our infant seat and Martha's Radian 65 on trips so we budgeted and I just ordered a new seat for Martha! The Radian XT in Malibu. This seat will allow Martha to stay rear facing until she hit 35# and provides a great place for her sleeping head. If you don't know the benifits of extended rear facing check out a couple links. Car Safety 4 Kids and Car Saftey.org and CPSaftey for more info or search there are tons of articles and video's on why it's so safe! Martha and I watched a YouTube Video on it and talked about how it was safer when she was questioning it. We don't always have her rear...for family things or to fit us all in at the drive in we will switch things around...but taht didn't start till she was well over 20# and 2 years!

The store I had chosen to order from, Hip Monkey is having a 15% off everything in their store so I made budget!!!

I choose to purchase from Hip Monkey not one of the many other places not because it was on sale here but because all profits from the sale of their items goes to the Kyle David Miller Foundation. This foundations provides car seats to low income families to keep children that have reached 40# in a 5-point harnessed car seat. If you do not know the benefits of extened harnessing please visit their page and check out the info.

Now why I want the Radian's...I drive a CIVIC! The space in that thing is tiny especially when you have two rear facing convertable seats in the rear! Radian can fit 3, yet THREE seats across in pretty much every vehicle...even a Civic. Now with a Civic you can't fit them all facing the same way...but still! So with two rear facing Radian's I should just be able to fit and buckle myself in the back between them. If you want to seemore pics of crazy installs of three seats...search for it! For fun I may at some point see what I can do as I'll have 2 Radian's and a Graco Seat Safe Infant seat in 2 to 3 days! Parent's you do not have to get a mini van or big vehicle to have three kids fit...you just have to be crazy enough to try to cram everything in!

Oh yeah Radin's are great seats other than the small width thing too...they are low on the sides making it easy to get kids in and out for parents and kids...fold for travel...but heavy because they are made with steel alloy in the frame, yup not all cheap plastic in there...the company tests the heck out of them and from what I've heard they are the only ones that have solidly tested their seats to be safe for use without the top teether which can't be used for higher weight acording to vehicle manufactures....they have a awsome rear tether that can be used rear facing for Rock solid installs. BUT because they sit so low there can be install issues in some vehicles...so if you decide to get on try a friends first or get the $5 return shipping just in case!

YEAH that's right I'm one of those car seat freaks...but I'm not certified or anything...that is I'm not National Child Passenger Safety Certified...so have your seat checked to make sure it's installed and you are using it correctly because 80% of car seats are installed WRONG!

Fact Answer: The chest clip on car seats is designed to keep the straps on a child's shoulders in the event of a accident. For it to function properly it should be between their arm pits. First pull the straps up tight...you can't pinch a fold above their sholders and can only fit one finger between the strap and the shoulder it's properly tightened to hold your child...then pull the clip up right between the arm pits! If those straps are not tight enough your child could slide out from under their straps and be injured!