New Carseat... YAY!

We've been having "issues" lately with Kyra's infant bucket seat. She's scrunching up when we put her in it which makes it REALLY hard to get her positioned right and on top of that it seems like the belts are pushing her down too far in the seat in order to get them tight enough AND she's getting sort of cranky because she wants to be in a more seated, less laying down position. We tried putting her more upright even (more than the 45 degree angle that's required for infants, I didn't know you could do that until recently) and she still is pretty uncomfy seeming so it's time for a new seat! After taking her to Target to sit in the display Britax Marathon and Roundabout and talking to the ladies on the car-seat.org forum we picked a Marathon and I spent a week SCOURING the internet for one that was a good deal. Finally decided to get it from Albee Baby because they had the retiring collegiate covers on sale for $90 off the original list price with '07 manufacture dates. Even with losing that year off the seat we'll still have five years before it expires and she will more than likely have outgrown the seat heightwise by then anyway so we'll just put her in a Britax Frontier then. I love the Marathon because she can be rearfacing in it to 35lbs or the height limit of the seat! (I just doubt she's going to stay short enough to be in this seat until she's 35lbs even if it IS a longer backed seat.) THEN we had to pick a color. Since they're collegiate covers they're solid color covers with the team logo embroidered on the top, but we're going to put a patch over the logo since none of them were teams we liked. We ended up going with the Kansas State University purple/indigo cover and it's gonna be here next tuesday. YAY!