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It is REALLY cold here, and as an infant we had a Patagonia down bunting. Thin enough to use with car seat and kept her super warm!

When she got bigger we just threw her coat on when we arrived.

I use a fleece north face zip up and a blanket.

His other coat is a warmish pea coat type. It's ok for the car seat. Neither keep him super warm, but with a blanket and the heat on in the car I assume he is ok.

We just use a thicker fleece jacket (http://www.columbia.com/boys-steens-mt-ii-fleece---infant-WN6760.html). My mom gives me grief and worries about my boys not being warm enough, but I know they are warm enough and SAFE, so I just ignore her.

@josina: Nice! I like it! Just bought my third one (3T) for Xander.

Luckily our car is parked in a heated garage, so no concerns about getting from our condo to the car, and the car is warm enough to begin with. But when we arrive wherever we are going, this winter I got a fleece similar to the one @Adira: just posted. It wouldn't be warm enough for a long walk outside but if I'm parked pretty close it should be fine. I'll keep a warm blanket in the car for when we have to get into a cold car to go home.

Last winter she was about a year and a half. I would have her dressed sort of warm (like a sweatshirt or thinner fleece) and carry her wrapped in a blanket to wherever we were going. Now that she's bigger and walks everywhere that wouldn't work as well.

DS wears a fleece Columbia jacket just to keep warm in the car and on the short walk to the car. If we're going out I have a thicker jacket for him to wear.

It's cold where I live. -30 in the mornings in the dead of winter, so I don't like the idea of running her out with no coat. I bought a 3-1 winter coat from Children's Place. It has a fleece liner and a winter coat shell. I take her out to the car (which I always warm up before hand) in the fleece+coat. When I get her in the car, I strip he out of the coat layer, buckle her in and cover her with a blanket. When I get to where we're going, I put the coat layer back on and we walk into the building. It's annoying, but we definitely got into a groove by the end of winter.