Wednesday, April 23, 2008

THE NEW YORK CITY STROLL

The Bugaboo. The Bugaboo is like pushing an electric car! You don't even need to hold on. It just goes... The perfect Manhattan stroller. You can either sit your baby towards you, looking out, or in a bassinet for little pipsqueaks!

The only con, is it's BIG! very big! and not very easily collapsable but on the other hand, in the city you do a lot of walking and taxi riding: so the Bugaboo has a carseat adaptor.

There are four different types of Bugaboo's so far:
The Bugaboo Cameleon: all sorts of c0ol colors
The Bugaboo Gecko: a bit less pricy, comes in green, black and red
The original, The frog which comes in dashing colors
The newest addition to the Bugaboo family: is the Bugaboo bee.
Adding to the Bugaboo there are accessories: a sun shield, a parasol for blistering city days, a rain cover, and for cold winter days the footmuff.
Along with your bugaboo, a city diaper bag is the SKIP HOP! The skip hop has many different colors and styles and fits with your Bugaboo perfectly! If you have twins, you can even get a double skip hop!

Beware! it's a little pricey, but once you purchase it I guarantee you'll love it! I certainly do~!

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

The ERGO baby carrier!


Just recently, my aunt was in India, and I told her she could not go with the huge Kelty backpack and instead told her to purchase the ERGO. She bought it and loved it! It saved my cousin from being run over by motorcycles, tuk tuks, rickshays than ran by at death defying speeds that made the streets look like a particle accelerator. The ergo is small, easily packable, very convenient and very comfy for both you and your baby. My cousin is three years old and weighs about thirty pounds and fits perfectly in it. He slept on her back through the ruins of medieval forts, and mosques and crowded markets that exhaled the perfumes of Indian spices.


The ERgo comes with an instructional video: quite a riot! It shows you how to live better!

You can wear your baby ( ages 0-5) on your front, on your back, on your hip either as a koala or a kangouroo. The babies head is even prtected and held up by a hood like cover that can double up, in Indian climates as a sun hat.


I highly recommend the ERGO! If you need to travel, have a clingy baby ( need to cook or clean with him/her on you or simply walk on crowded streets that do not have space for strollers: it's perfect, although a bit pricy ( about $100)