Bugging me Bugaboo (ah-ha-a)

Unfairly or no, I have a little bit of a reputation as a purchaser of prams.  True, we did get through three different models within Alice's first six months of stroller travel, but the untimely demise of one of those was due to Qantas and the other two served their purposes well.  The fact that we additionally have part ownship in a gorgeous Silver Cross at Nanna Keefe's house, plus a Target $30 rubbishy one for travel is by the by.  The fact remains that we have two children and two prams at our Sydney residence.  Not so bad.

I still love love my the Bugaboo Bee and so could not bring myself to replace it with the birth of Juliet.  I live in hope that Alice, nearing the age of 3, will decide that she's willing to walk further and more frequently and so couldn't be bothered with changing to a double buggy for the sake of a few months.  Plus there's only one day a week when I'll have both children on my own, so I thought that (if we manage to leave the house at all) we could just go to places where ambulation is not required.

Thus it was with much joy that the toddler buggy board was received from Nanna Keefe as her gift to Juliet.  Juliet benefits by not having an older sister sulk and scream when she occupies the Bug, so is really very grateful.  Alice has been travelling in the Target number for a few months to dissassociate herself from the more glamourous wheels but the threat of a meltdown is always close at hand, given the slightest provocation in these early days.

Yet... O Glorious Day!  Hip, hip hooray!  We finally took the skateboard for a test drive to the farmers market this morning and Alice absolutely loved it. 

So I'm envisaging many happy trips around the Eastern suburbs on a Wednesday.  Now I just need to work out a way to get out of the house with two children before 10.30am (and that was with Stu's help!)

A further note on the pram.  Don't even get me started on the fact that the capsule doesn't clip straight into the Bee, but works with the Chameleon and the Frog.  You are not getting any more of my money, pram manufacturers.  Except, obviously, if I see the cupholder for the Bee on sale....