L’s experience as a car passenger is about to get a whole lot more interesting.
Today, per her doctor’s authorization (and suggestion), I turned around L’s car seats in our respective vehicles. The next time the baby piles in the car for a ride, she’ll be facing forward, thereby seeing an entirely new world.
Mommy! Daddy! The [...]

Remember that campy movie, “Snakes On A Plane,” from 2006? The last few days in this house have been more like “Babies On A Plane,” since we’ve been up to our eyeballs in planning our end-of-year trip to England.
We’ve got our destination (The Cotswolds). We’ve got our dates (my wife’s winter break). We’ve even got [...]

We’re closing in on a big moment here in the Villano family: The day when we get to turn around L’s car seats so they face forward.
Here in California, the law states that babies must face backward until they weigh more than 22 pounds AND are at least a year old. Since L now tips [...]

With the help of a certified car seat technician from the local police department, I installed L’s brand new car seat in my old (circa 2001) truck this afternoon. The seat, a Britax Roundabout 50 Convertible Car Seat, is so big that I had to fiddle with the removable back seat cushions to get the [...]