Loving everything about it
March 31, 2019
I'll admit I was nervous about transitioning our not-quite-one-year-old to a convertible car seat and about learning to install a new one, just when we'd gotten good at the infant seat. But this one was super-easy to install (we used the LATCH connections, not seatbelt), and the baby seems to be very comfortable. A few days after we installed it, we had a 6-hour round-trip weekend car ride, and it looked like he enjoyed having the extra space this seat provides. The adults in our family are appreciating the sophisticated, subtle design aesthetic, in shades of gray, and the ease of adjustment. The mechanism to tighten and loosen the belts to get baby in and out works easily and smoothly, and the system to adjust the height of the headrest couldn't be simpler. It's connected to the top of the shoulder part of the straps, which makes it super fast to adjust them higher as he grows. On the road-trip weekend, we had our two-year-old, much larger nephew in the seat at one point, and we could set it up for him and then back to fit our son in a flash. (Just to note: this seat is substantial, best to install and then leave in the car. It's not the kind you'll want to put in and out, switching between cars.) The second weekend using it, on another roadtrip, we set up the SensorSafe function, too, connecting it to the car's computer and downloading the SensorSafe app so we could connect the seat to a smartphone. That was all pretty seamless, the hardest part being to find the jack for the piece that connects to the car's computer. From there, the seat connected to the car and then to a phone easily. Now, there's a chiming sound when the car turns off if the seat is buckled, reminding us that baby is still buckled in, and, once he's old enough to figure out how to unbuckle himself, it'll warn us about that too, which will be great. The app also shares the temperature in the area immediately around the seat. We're very much looking forward to using this for years to come, from the rear-facing seat we currently have it installed as, to front-facing and then converting it to work as a booster.
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