new car

we interrupt our regularly scheduled name-posts to say... we bought a car last night! A Honda odyssey in "obsidian blue." it has 8 seats - 8! for the last several months we figured if* we bought a new car we'd go with the mazda 5 which is much closer to car-sized (and has 6 seats), but in the end we figured if we were going to do this bigger car thing, we were going to do it all the way. and bigger it is - it barely fits in our garage, so the next task is to clear out the drawers lining the side of our garage! the odyssey gets the best safety ratings, and we negotiated a great under-invoice price. so we're happy... and kinda of overwhelmed with being mini-van people. but I guess that's what happens when you have 3 kids in car seats.

 

 

* we really wanted to not buy a new car. but when we went to a car seat safety check earlier this month they told us that, although we could buy two new narrower convertible carseats for E&K and fit the infant carseat between, we would not be able to fit two booster seats and anything into the prius (because of the specific way the prius seats are shaped and boosters are installed). since we do plan for the kids to move to booster seats in the next year-ish we figured we'd just bite the bullet now and not live super squished for a year just to buy a car the following year. so... voila!