Archive for the ‘Gear’ Category
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
There are two places in Vancouver that sell the stroller we wanted to buy, and only one of them is within walking distance from our house. It's called Crocodile and we don't really like it because we feel that they sell fancy, snobby, overpriced items, but they do say on ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Today I bought our third stroller. I know, it sounds crazy. But strollers are like shoes: could you pick one pair of shoes that would work for all situations? It would be hard. Same with strollers. We have our Chariot, which we love dearly, a bike trailer/stroller/jogger combo, made in ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Several posts back, I explained how we hesitated for a long time over which baby carrier to purchase. We finally bought a Sherpani baby carrier online. We thought we were done with our troubles... Little did we know that it was only the beginning of a long, very long saga!
We ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
So Wednesday, I missed my fitness class to stay home and wait for a FedEx delivery. When I called to give them our oh!-so-hard-to-figure-out buzzer number, I asked if they could come in the afternoon, but they could not guarantee it. So I didn't move until they came... at 14:15. ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
We are expecting a high chair, delivered by FedEx. Yesterday, I was home all day. When I went to get the mail, I found a FedEx notice saying that they "didn't have the buzzer number". What? They had our apartment number, which is the same as the buzzer number. I ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Our son is now 5 1/2 months old, which is pretty close to 6 months. And it seems that everything changes at 6 months old, or at least you have a whole lot of new things to worry about. We bought a new car seat last weekend as ours seems ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Using cloth diapers is not as complicated as people may think, but there are a lot of things to think about and when you have never seen anyone use them, it can certainly be intimidating at first. So here is a summary of what it has been like for us.
We ...
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