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Niko and I ready for First Fridays!
I don’t have many friends with babies. We’re the first people in our group of friends to have kids. Having kids changes everything – for better and worse.
Our friends joked that it was nice knowing us when we got pregnant.
I REFUSE to be like so many of our friends who had kids and fell off the side of the planet.
Personally, I think you can do most of the things you did before kids – it just takes more time, patience, planning and gear. Lots of gear.
This weekend we did it all; First Fridays, the Kansas City Zoo, backyard barbeques, Power and Light and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. In order to do all of this we needed a backpack carrier, an exersaucer, stroller, diaper bags, bottles, toys, TWO cans of puffs and lots of patience and help from friends.
Who knew that someone so little takes so much gear!
I must say that hauling a baby around on your back for several hours is not my idea of a good time, but Niko did really well in his carrier. He was hot and heavy, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. Niko is pretty social so he really liked being out and about with everyone at the galleries.
I do wish that Niko was walking only for his love of the outdoors.
Niko loves being outside, but he skins ups his legs pretty bad crawling around on the cement patio. I put him in the grass, but he wants to be with everyone else so – scrape, scrape, scrape. Eventually I have to put him into the exersaucer – his baby prison for barbeques.
Strollers are a must we have about 5 of them. You have your massive roadster version for day trips (Graco travel system), the middle range stroller for most events (I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my Combi) and the cheap o’ buy-enough-at-Toys-R-Us-get-a-free-stroller umbrella stroller.
We have a small fortune in gear – it’s amazing how much we have spent on molded plastic and metal tubing.
Oh well. It’s worth it if we can still have some resemblance of our pre-baby life.
I have seen little knee pads for babies when they are crawling. You might check out onestepahead.com and search for knee and they will come up! But it is a relief once they start walking! Both of mine walk, but we still have a stroller to keep one contained so while the other is walking so one doesn't get away.I feel you. I am trying to figure out how we are going to do Branson without three different strollers: the double for when both kids need to ride, the single for the baby in her car seat and the umbrella for big brother when he's on his own with one of us.You really need all that baby gear? Well who am I to say? I plan on going it simple with this one, and my older two never had all that stuff (it didn't exist or I did without). We all survived.I never even used a stroller - any stroller - with mine. We got by with a big handbag or oversized purse for "things", except on big overnight trips. I really never used his play yard past the point where I just used the top as a changing table. Maybe at ten pounds? I think people do load up on a lot of unnecessary baby gear.I'm with Beckett. I have two toddlers and an infant. You can get by with less if you want to! BTW- I've been meaning to tell your son is so stinkin' cute!At least you are the first of friends to have the child. I was the last of my friends and I still went over and tried to do stuff and they all, yes all acted like it was an inconvenience to have company. By the time our one child was 4-5 years old, their children were already busy. My one friend even said, "We should make plans when our kids graduate!" I said, "Fine, I'll see you in 13 years" We haven't spoke since. We had all the gear you talked about so that we could go everywhere and the child not be an excuse but there are some that either don't want to share that time or think their time is more precious.I personally don't remember my pre-baby life, so I can't really try to get it back. DS has reached that nonstop stage anyway where I can't get him to sit down or stay in one place (careful what you wish for when you talk about walking!!) so I generally try to find a sitter when I get out and try to find myself a life.
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