Car seat regulations

I kinda regretted buying the Graco32 Snug 'n Ride car seat because (1) it was heavy on its own, (2) even heavier with a growing J in it, and (3) at the time J was born, one-year-olds could switch to a forward-facing car seat. Like all infant car seats, the Graco32 is rear-facing. The maximum weight limit on the Graco32 is 32 lbs. Since J wasn't going to be 32 lbs at age one, I thought we would have "wasted" our heavy car seat before J reached the weight limit.

Well, wouldn't you know that in March of this year, the AAP is now advising parents to keep their kids in rear-facing car seats until age two, or until they reach the height and weight limit of their car seat.

So let's say that J will be in the 95th percentile for height and 75th percentile for weight when he is two (same percentiles as he was at age one). That'd mean he'd be 36.5 inches and 28.9 lbs, under the weight limit of our current car seat (yay!).