Introducing Baby Blue

After Little Blue (our Jetta) decided to run away from home (detailed here), we've been slightly more actively pursuing a new (to us) vehicle of some sort. We've for a long while talked about someday replacing Little Blue with a minivan - you know, a small vehicle for when we have just a few kids with us, but big enough that we can bring a wheelchair. We're particularly thinking about the frequent trips that we need to take to medical appointments with Mira - we can disassemble Bobbi's chair and get it into the Jetta, and with a little more difficulty, can also get Krassi's in there, but we just can't do it with Mira's behemoth. A minivan with stow-n-go seats seemed like the best way to go.

With Andrea's mom in town to watch the kids (in time for Thanksgiving, but primarily here to help us next week when Bobbi goes back in to stay at Gillette for one to two weeks of intense physical rehab), Matt and I took Saturday afternoon to scoot out together (!) with Eben to check out a few used vehicles we'd seen on the internet.

Turns out the winner when we put together the combination of miles and price, was a fully loaded, pale blue colored 2013 model. We made the purchase and drove it home yesterday. The funny thing about purchasing used vehicles is that a family like ours can end up with a vehicle with all the trimmings...including a heated steering wheel! (I don't think I even knew things like that existed!!)

But the best part of all is the name - Matt himself christened this one: Baby Blue. Very fitting. Big Blue and Baby Blue - what ends up happening to Little Blue is still up in the air, but we've got some ideas rolling around. (Ha ha!! We're just glad Little Blue hasn't been doing any more rolling around without prior authorization!)