La Familia:

Tackling the Carseat

It’s all fun and games until you have to clean out the carseat. Not only is it a challenge to take the damn thing apart, I struggle to keep all the pieces together sometimes. Yep I’m the “mom of the year,” when it comes to loosing small pieces of this and that. Luckily for the boys I’ve never lost a pertinent part of the carseat- I mean obviously I wouldn’t put my lives in a defective carseat- but they have been known to go without the little padded seat cover strap thingies.. I wonder who else Would admit to that! Hey I never said I was perfect..Back to the monster that is my baby’s carseat.

So this seat is one of the convertible ones that “grows” with the kid. Lucky for me it’s never really gotten so filthy that I had to take it apart.

Until Friday that is.. We went out for dinner and Aramis walked out with a to-go lemonade. I normally don’t let him, but since it was his first week of school I gave in. Ofcourse Ezra would want a drink- and a drink he got. All over himself and his seat. Nice job Aramis!

I don’t recommend taking apart a car seat with the child it belongs to around. Ezra thought it was the best thing ever getting into his seat and moving it around all while I’m trying to carefully pull the covers off. Not easy. I’m always afraid that I’ll rip something off that should not come off..

The washing and drying was the easy part. I was not looking forward to putting it all back together. Again, if you can- remove the child from the area of set up. Unfortunately for me, that was not an option. This time the coverings were nice and clean, but getting the belts was almost my breaking point. Thank goodness I was able to get it put back together in time to pick up Aramis. So our Tuesday wasn’t’ a complete bust- little man has a clean and fresh car seat.  I didn’t post this status on the Candypolooza Facebook page and I totally should have..

Someone get busy on inventing that already! I don’t need credit or payment, just thank me on the packaging 🙂 

Question

When was the last time you washed your child’s carseat??

Hope you have a great Wednesday!