Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Woot!

When G and I went to register at Babies 'R Us, it was quite the ordeal. We were both very much out of our element, and spent an inordinate amount of time in the stroller/car seat section. We knew we wanted to be able to have bases in both vehicles, with the ability to move the car seat from one to the other. I'd heard 'don't waste your money on an infant car seat', but all the convertible seats didn't have the option to transfer between bases. And we wanted a stroller we could just drop the base in to, but didn't want a huge travel system.

Eventually, we threw up our hands in despair, picked an infant seat/stroller combo that was on clearance, and went ahead and registered for a convertible seat for the next stage. Of course, G picked the RECARO model, one of the most expensive offered. But - they make race car seats!! So they must be good!! I was totally out on it, didn't really care as long as Baby T was strapped in safely. But. Geeze. Nearly $300 for a car seat. Man.

Then, at midnight last night, the most awesomest thing happened. Woot.com had our car seat - at 1/3 the price!! G was prescient enough to wake me for the OK, and got us a super bargain. Woo hoo!



Ain't it fancy? (Ours will have cobalt accents rather than blush...)

92 days to go. Depending on which site you read, I'm either officially third tri or will be next week. And today, for the first time, I'm actually really uncomfortable. :(

1 comment:

Tori said...

I don't know who told you infant car seats were a waste. We loved ours because it also doubles as a carrier and you could put it in the stroller. When Sophia would fall asleep in the car (which was almost every car ride), we could just remove her with the car seat without having to wake her. She was pretty tall, so we moved her into a convertible seat when she was about 6 months old. But the infant seat was definitely worth it.