When you think of "firsts" for new babies, you usually think of things like first bath (see last post), first ride in the car, first trip to the doctor, first tooth, first word, stuff like that. I'm guessing that Baby's first test drive probably doesn't make most people's list.
William, however, is nothing if not a baby who lives on the edge. David and I test-drove two new cars today down at the Honda-Toyota-Acura dealership down in Cathedral City, and Prince William got to come along for the ride. Okay, technically, he only rode in one car (a Honda Accord), but it still counts. We realized a few days ago that David's car may be too small for a family of three, one of whom may only weigh eight pounds but requires many more pounds of stuff, including a car seat. And the car seat really just doesn't fit well into the tiny backseat of David's two-door car. And when it does barely fit, it shoves the passenger side seat so far toward the dashboard that no one who is eligible to ride in that seat without a car or booster seat would be able to comfortably sit in it anyway. So we figured we'd start researching new, larger cars. Today was our first venture out onto the car lot with a real purpose in mind. We wanted to check out a few cars, see how they handled, see how big the trunks were (to hold all of William's stuff, heavy packer that he is), and just get a sense of what we're interested in. William is tough to impress, though. He slept through his test drive. Oh well.
A recent development may be speeding up the car-buying process, too. Stay tuned.
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