Lets get a travel buggy car seat pram..eh?
No doubt about it, it has got to be the most confusing purchase you will make as you prepare for your kids birth. What will it travel in, be it pram, buggy or car seat. Do you go for seperates and have a pram, then move onto a buggy, have car seat and then another in 9 months for when it outgrows its first...or do you go for a "Travel System". Like Transfomers these are in disguise! It's a pram, it's a buggy AND a car seat....my head hurts, lets go home...
We had our first trip looking at these wonders last weekend and by the end of it I was in a spinny place. Having cunningly asked the youngest looking girl to show me JUST how easy it was to use the Graco Turbo In Your Face I do Everything travel system she did just that. You unlock this, push here, press this button and fold. Then to change it into a pram untie this, move this over there, turn around 3 times and there you have it, a pram....oh aye, err thanks. That was in Toys 'R' Us, or Babys 'R' Us to be exact. It is the 1st time I have been in that shop in 25 years or so, it took Sarah 2 hours to drag me out. £$£$£$£$£$ is all I am saying. As she looked at travel systems I checked out the Pirates of the Caribean range, as she looked at cots I checked out train sets. Cool...if its a boy that is!
Anyway, we checked everything they had in the store out and came to a few decisions. We quite like the idea of an all in one travel system - a buggy/pram that trebles as a car seat. Just need to find one. We quite liked a Graco one but its early days and we decided we have months to decide. Besides, it may be worth waiting for the January sales. 2 seconds later we are in Mothercare looking at Quinnys! We eventually got home but a nagging worry was that the Graco travel system seemed quite bulky, would it fit in our Nissan Micra boot. 9am the next morning (Sunday, day of rest...yeah right) we are back at Toys R US and are wheeling the system out to see if it fits in the boot. Not a chance...not even close...
So that ruled out that travel system....nope....that ruled out the Micra. Within 4 hours we had been to Arnold Clark and ordered an Almera. Its got plenty of boot space and although we may not get the travel system we were looking at earlier it does increase our possibilities ten fold. We got a good deal too and spent less than I had thought which was ideal. Not that the money will be around long. Whilst in Toys R Us we picked a range of items we liked, have seen cots, cribs etc and to be honest I now have an A4 list of things we need. First I need to gut my computer room....sigh.
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I haven't laughed as much in years!!!!
You are doing things exactly the opposite way round to us - our car was the last thing not the first.
Will you kiss the baby's bum and stick the nappy on its head???
One word of advice - Toys R Us Gold Card. Doesn't give you much, but it looks good in the wallet next to the mandatory photo.
Posted by: Lee | October 18, 2006 9:28 PM
Oh my god...all this stuff scares me rigid.
I'm not selling my car!!
Posted by: Richard Brunton | October 19, 2006 7:00 AM
Sound advice there from James Nesbitt.
What colour is your car again, Richard?
Posted by: Lee | October 19, 2006 9:38 AM