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Crazy how it happens, isn't it?I may have a few years ahead of you (6 and 3 yo). Kids were the biggest factor when it came to buying a GX and considering the lift/tire size for me. Letting the kids climb into the vehicle at a young age was an important step in my view...and they love to tell me how they did it by themselves. Long term, this means no sliders for 3 more years. Additionally, I don't know how tall you (or anyone else who would be seating the kids) are but it's not fun to lift a kid or occupied convertible into the back seat...more so when lifted. This gets old. Our WRX was far easier for kid loading until there were two.
I use my GX for family vacations with some trails for and towing our camper. @JEFFKISTHENAME does things to the next level and I like it. @r2m does them more to my style. @BigSwede has another great example of what I would like someday. @Acrad is like the librarian of GX truths and reason. The GX may not be the best answer. Sometimes it is.
I bought my GX when we were expecting our first, and now it's a few years later... Kid #1 is almost 3 y/o, Kid #2 is 2 months old. Time flies. My first loves the GX and I hope to introduce her to off-roading with it in the coming years.
I joined the Toyota 4x4 community coming up on 10 years ago when I bought my first 4Runner and that kicked off the saga of how I ended up here, both with the GX and on Mud. The communities and friends I've made along the way make it almost impossible to leave. The vehicles themselves don't hurt, either; if anything, they're almost "too good." I distinctly remember all of the breakdowns my dad had with his YJ Wrangler (the vehicle that got me into off-roading from basically the day I was born), and that's (hopefully) just not going to be the case behind the wheel of a Lexus/Toyota. The most fun vehicle is the one that always works...
& agreed re: lifting kids into a lifted GX. Sub-optimal. So is the GX's door opening. It's fine, but there's much, much, much easier vehicles out there. The sliders on my GX don't make it drastically worse, but I do have to remember to not smash my shin into it when reaching across a car seat or the likes. Very different from my dad buckling me into the front seat of the aforementioned YJ as a young kid (and only the front seat because it didn't have air bags), but memorable nonetheless.