Comments on: Our freakishly tall toddler just cost us another $400 http://beautifulinmyeyes.net/archives/56 Happenings of Aidan with musings by his lucky parents Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:14:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Lori http://beautifulinmyeyes.net/archives/56#comment-36 Lori Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:47:16 +0000 http://beautifulinmyeyes.net/archives/56#comment-36 Jen: It is NUTS how much car seats are!!! Don't get me wrong...I do lots of research and in the end don't really balk when it comes to my son's safety. But it is just that momentary sticker shock that just gets you! Abby: Here is a great link showing the various harness heights for different car seats. http://www.carseatdata.org/cnt/resources/car-seat-measurements The thing to keep in mind is that it is the torso height that really matters. Not only is Aidan tall...but he is taller in his torso than his legs. My hubby is built the same. 6'2" but only about a 32" inseam (freakishly long torso, haha). On that link the harness slot heights will tell you how "tall" your child's torso can be. Your Roundabout has top slots of 15.5". Aidan's Britax Decathlon says top harness height of 17.5" but I didn't find that to be true. Really 17" at the very max...maybe less. His Safeguard Seat is stated to have a top harness height of 19.5" and it is at least that on him. Maybe 20". Hope this helps! Glad to hear Hallie is growing so well. :-) Lori Jen:

It is NUTS how much car seats are!!! Don’t get me wrong…I do lots of research and in the end don’t really balk when it comes to my son’s safety. But it is just that momentary sticker shock that just gets you!

Abby:

Here is a great link showing the various harness heights for different car seats.

http://www.carseatdata.org/cnt/resources/car-seat-measurements

The thing to keep in mind is that it is the torso height that really matters. Not only is Aidan tall…but he is taller in his torso than his legs. My hubby is built the same. 6′2″ but only about a 32″ inseam (freakishly long torso, haha). On that link the harness slot heights will tell you how “tall” your child’s torso can be. Your Roundabout has top slots of 15.5″. Aidan’s Britax Decathlon says top harness height of 17.5″ but I didn’t find that to be true. Really 17″ at the very max…maybe less. His Safeguard Seat is stated to have a top harness height of 19.5″ and it is at least that on him. Maybe 20″. Hope this helps!

Glad to hear Hallie is growing so well. :-)
Lori

]]> By: abby http://beautifulinmyeyes.net/archives/56#comment-35 abby Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:39:25 +0000 http://beautifulinmyeyes.net/archives/56#comment-35 Wow. Just for the sake of (my admittedly limited) sanity: do you know what the height limit is on the Britax Roundabout (a lot like the Decathalon--also rated to 65 pounds). We NEVER even considered height when we shelled out 300 bucks for it. But it's looking like Hallie will be pretty tall--hopefully not freakishly so (though I think Aidan is the cutest freak I've ever seen), but tall. She's 32 inches at 19 months actual (15 corrected) and is outgrowing the length on 12-18 month clothing (she's 24 lbs and still gets into them, but is about to move to 18-24 lbs if I could stomach the idea of her never again wearing all of those hardly-worn outfits). Anyway, it's nice to have to worry about such things because it really does make a difference lung-wise. I ADORE our pulmonologist but would not really mind being discharged! Wow. Just for the sake of (my admittedly limited) sanity: do you know what the height limit is on the Britax Roundabout (a lot like the Decathalon–also rated to 65 pounds). We NEVER even considered height when we shelled out 300 bucks for it. But it’s looking like Hallie will be pretty tall–hopefully not freakishly so (though I think Aidan is the cutest freak I’ve ever seen), but tall. She’s 32 inches at 19 months actual (15 corrected) and is outgrowing the length on 12-18 month clothing (she’s 24 lbs and still gets into them, but is about to move to 18-24 lbs if I could stomach the idea of her never again wearing all of those hardly-worn outfits). Anyway, it’s nice to have to worry about such things because it really does make a difference lung-wise. I ADORE our pulmonologist but would not really mind being discharged!

]]> By: Jen http://beautifulinmyeyes.net/archives/56#comment-33 Jen Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:38:51 +0000 http://beautifulinmyeyes.net/archives/56#comment-33 Doesn't it surprise you how expensive carseats are? We bought a britax decathalon for Arianna this time last year only to have to turn around and buy 2 more for grandma's car and the nanny's car... That was almost $1000! I'm so done with carseats. I guess we can consider Arianna's slow weight gain as a blessing in that aspect huh? LOL Doesn’t it surprise you how expensive carseats are? We bought a britax decathalon for Arianna this time last year only to have to turn around and buy 2 more for grandma’s car and the nanny’s car… That was almost $1000! I’m so done with carseats. I guess we can consider Arianna’s slow weight gain as a blessing in that aspect huh? LOL

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