Car Seat Trolls

I’m sure that everyone has heard of the sock gnomes. They are the little guys who run around like Robin Hood and steal single socks out of the dryer. What they do with these single socks has remained a mystery, as well as why they insist upon driving mothers around the world mad. I just recently met a close relative of the sock gnomes. Please welcome – the Car seat troll. Like sock gnomes, these little buggers are never actually seen. Everyone with at least 1 child has one that lives under the seats of your car. While you’re driving, he goes in the back seat and tightens your child(ren)’s seatbelt so that it’s almost impossible to buckle him or her into their car seat without squishing them like play dough the next time you want to go out. You may or may not have one living in your home too. Exactly why they do this is unknown. I thought it was my 4 year old just being stubborn. She is in a car seat where she can tighten her own seatbelt, but not loosen it. (Someone smack the designers with a sock full of crack . Seriously, what were you thinking leaving something in the reach of a 4 year old that they can and will monkey with?!) Then, my 6 week old started having this happen also. There is no way that she can reach the straps behind her car seat. Nor can her squirmy older sister. Yet her car seat consistently gets tighter also. Which leads me to suspect the car seat trolls. Watch out - they'll drive you just as batty as the sock gnomes.
Becky