Baby's New Ride

For the past several weeks, Babies R Us has been running a promotion called "The Great Trade In." It's basically to promote safety in possible recalled products for babies. You could bring your car seat, stroller, pack n play, exersaucer or high chair (as many as you'd like in all of these) and get 25% off of a new one for each item that you brought. I used Sage's infant seat with Jaggar, too, but it's 8 years old at this point. I read that after 10 years they expire, and it's good to have one less than 5. SO...not needing everything from the ground up in terms of baby (and knowing what is useless to start with...ie: wipe warmers), I figured I'd need a new seat. Mom just got Jaggar a new Britax seat (you know, the cow) last year, and he's still in it. This baby will be able to use that when he's bigger as Jaggar will be out, and that's great, but I wanted a new infant seat.

With this promotion, it was a good time to get it so I could rid myself of the old one and save money. You can't consign car seats because they have no way of knowing recalls and if its been in a wreck. SO, all that said, Jaggar and I headed to Birmingham last Friday. I took my entire travel system because I didn't know exactly what I was doing...if I got an entire new travel system, just one item would be sufficient, but if I did a stroller and seat separately, I'd need both. It took me all of about 20 minutes to decide on what I wanted: the Graco Snugride 30. It's light weight, as is the stroller that coordinated with it, so it's good that I brought both items because I got 25% off of each, saving $55. The "travel system" stroller is awful in terms of heavy, so I'm very pleased with what I got. I also didn't want to go crazy in terms of strollers because that implies I'll actually be going places. Thank you, mom and dad, for this gift!

So, Babies R Us and TOYS R Us are in the same building...so guess who thought that they were on their own personal shopping spree? He grabbed a Halloween bucket and was filling it with everything he could find. "We gotta take this to our house!" he'd say. I couldn't help but laugh at him. This busy day is why he didn't get to nap and why he slept the entire time at Ikea.

I assembled the stroller myself, and guess who put it to their own personal use pretty quickly? I just never know where or how I'll find things around here. Oh, when I was finished putting it together, Jaggar came in there and saw it and said, "OH! Thank you so much, everybody!!!"