I posted the other day about how Neely asks to "Wop the doy" when she hears the other two start asking as we turn on to our street. Well, apparently she doesn't need to hear them first, she knows the rules of the game herself. Today we turned on to our street, and as soon as we were around the corner Neely said "Mama, wop a doy?!" Haha. The other two hadn't even thought of it yet, so she was the clear winner.
She did NOT want us getting too close, either. She'd give us a feisty look and try to push us away, afraid we were going to unlock the door for her.
Since Cason has moved into his booster seat, they started asking when Neely can be turned to face forward. They're allowed to once they're a year old AND 20 lbs, but they say it's safer to wait until they're closer to two. Since our kids have all been between 25 and 30 pounds at a year old, she really could've been turned around a long time ago. But I like to play it safe. She's 20 months old today though, and that feels close enough to 2 that we decided to go ahead and do it. The other kids were super excited about it, so we expected her to be too. But at first she was very unhappy.
I think that was more about having to go for another ride than it was about facing forward though. Because a few seconds later she kind of realized she had a better view. She quieted down and stared out the window.
Pretty soon she started to smile, ignoring the brother trying to tickle her feet.
In the end we thought she seemed pretty happy about the change.
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As Minuet was the only one of her friends still rear facing, and nearing her 2nd birthday, they switched the one year and 20lb guideline to just telling people to wait till two. Ha, all these poor parents of one and a half year olds who thought they'd followed the rules were suddenly stuck deciding between mad turned around baby who had already tasted freedom, or just being reckless early turners (most fit that camp). I think no one paid attn to the "two preferred, one is minimum" part. Ha. I think I remembered you blogging about it and felt less nerdy that I kept her rear facing closer to two.
Megan, I'm always glad to hear someone else is protectively nerdy too. I'm often made fun of for it. :)
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