Moms of kids ~3 years apart--carseat question

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DD2 is a peanut so she still fits in her bucket seat, but we will probably move her to a convertible seat on or around her first birthday. I'm trying to figure out what to do when the time comes.

DD1 is currently FF in a Britax Marathon. She is about 36 lbs and 37" tall and will be 4 in July. The Marathon doesn't expire until June 2017 so it still has 3 years of use yet. I am on the fence about whether to buy another Marathon (or similar convertible) for DD2 and keep DD1 in her Marathon until she outgrows it, or go ahead and buy a combo convertible/booster for DD1 now and use the existing Marathon for DD2 when the time comes.

WWYD?

[newgirl412]

If it were me, I would go ahead and get a Graco Argos or a Britax Pioneer for DD1. And then give DD2 the Marathon.

[redheadk]

I'd buy a ff seat that converts to a booster for dd1 and stick dd2 in the britax. She'll be ready for dd1's ffing seat when the britax expires and you can likely put dd1 in a backless booster at that point.

[londoncalling]

We bought DD1 a Pioneer and handed down. It made sense to me to spend money on the next step forward vs. a convertible for dd2 and then a combo harness/booster for dd1 less than a year later based on how she fit in her convertible at the time.

[nancybotwin]

Apr 19, 2014 11:41:45 GMT -5 newgirl412 said:

If it were me, I would go ahead and get a Graco Argos or a Britax Pioneer for DD1. And then give DD2 the Marathon.

This is what we plan to do when DS needs the marathon.

[dcrunnergirl52]

We're using one of our old Cosco Sceneras for DS2 and keeping DD and DS1 in their Marathons. But, if we didn't have the Cosco's, we would have bought DS1 an combo seat and given DS2 the old Marathon, just like you suggested.

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Apr 19, 2014 11:46:40 GMT -5 redheadk said:

I'd buy a ff seat that converts to a booster for dd1 and stick dd2 in the britax. She'll be ready for dd1's ffing seat when the britax expires and you can likely put dd1 in a backless booster at that point.

Ditto this.

[spanikopita]

I bought a Frontier & put the baby in the convertible we had from DS.

[megs193]

We put DS1 into a britax frontier once DS2 was 1 and ready to go into our britax advocate. If I were you I would buy something like the britax frontier for your 4 year old. It harnesses to 85lbs so we plan to keep our oldest in it until our youngest outgrows the britax advocate.

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Apr 19, 2014 14:22:50 GMT -5 @fivedogs said:

You will likely be able to give DD2 the marathon, and then give her the combination seat in 3 years (and DD1 can be in a highback or backless booster, depending on whether there is a headrest in her seating position). There will likely be a few years when they are both in boosters, so a combination seat now would be a good choice, especially if you are wedded to Britax convertibles. It wouldn't make sense to me to buy another spendy convertible when you only need to RF one kid. I don't know what percentile she is for height, so she may not need a Frontier if you want to consider a less spendy seat (the Frontier has the highest top slots of combination seats).

She's pretty tall (75%) so I think we are going to do the Frontier. I have set up a deal alert for it on SlickDeals. 

Thanks for the help everyone!

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We bought the older kid a Frontier and moved the baby to the Marathon both times we were in this position.