Infant Restraint/Carrier Inspection

My husband and I were joking that the baby could not come yet because we did not have her car seat installed and inspected yet! My co-teachers were telling me that babies don't care if you're ready or not! They come when they want to! But at last we had the car seat inspected. It took a while because my husband was trying to make an appointment for weeks but no one is returning his call . Finally, last week somebody called him back, and the good thing about it was the venue is the hospital where I am supposed to deliver so we already know where it is supposed to be. We really tried putting the baby's car seat. We read both the car's manual and the infant restraint/carrier owner's manual, but it is mostly picture and we are not really sure what we are doing! (We find the missing washer for the stroller's wheel though. It was in the car seat's base; no wonder we could not find it anywhere on the floor when we are assembling the stroller!) Anyway, the car seat base's strap seemed too short and we don't know why there are two latch on the car when there is only one hook on the infant car seat. Needless to say my husband drove to the inspection without the car seat being done yet. We apologized about it and the volunteer who attended to us is very nice about it! She read the car manual and the the infant restraint/carrier manual and she just did it! She told us that we could only use one not both ! If we use the latch system which is what she did, we don't use the hook! My! The volunteers are very efficient it took less than an hour for the whole installation and inspection!

travel system

We finally finish assembling our baby's stroller. Putting it together is not so hard after all. It is just following instruction but when my husband flipped the stroller, we somehow lost one of the washer that goes into one of the wheels . We looked everywhere in all the corners of the room and even under the carpets thinking that it could have rolled over somewhere but couldn't find it so we didn't finish it during the first try. I had to order another washer from Graco. The shipping actually cost more than the washer. It also took a few days before it arrived. Looking at the assembled stroller is nice. Now we only need to figure out how to install the baby's car seat.