New Car Seat

Today we went out and bought Sofia her first booster seat. Since our friends are letting us use their car this summer while they are in the States we had to break out the kids car seats and use them. When Sofia climbed into her car seat she seemed too big for it so when we got back inside I measured her height, weight, and seated height. She had an inch to spare on height, 3lbs to spare in weight but she was an inch over on the seated height. Now, if we had been in the U.S. I would have broken out the consumer reports and read up on what was the best booster seat. This would make me comfortable knowing that I did my research. Well, here we don't have consumer reports. Even if I could see the U.S. Consumer Reports it wouldn't really matter since most of the models are different here. So I basically had to go on brand recognition. Now this doesn't make me very comfortable but there isn't much I can do about it. I have to believe that the car seats are approved by the EU regulatory body that oversees this stuff. Sofia loves her new booster seat especially becuase she is buckled in just like me.