A (ahem) Stroller Down Memory Lane

Today we bought Millie a Travel System. If you're unfamiliar with baby items, this is a combination of a stroller and a carrier carseat. We gave our old one away, with everything else baby that we once owned. And it took Josh and me a while to figure out which system we wanted. We chose one that looks a lot like this one:

Isn't it pretty?

Looking at these systems caused me to jog down Memory Lane, imagine that. We used our first travel system until it fell apart. I mean that very literally. We wore it out. We got it for Emma in 2001 and used it through 2003. We moved onto campus to return to school in 2002 and needed a way to carry our little girls around. Campus was too small to drive everywhere, but too big to carry an infant and toddler around. So, naturally, we used our stroller (Abby had outgrown the carseat at 4 months old). But, being poor college students, we couldn't get a double stroller, so we just put both girls in the single stroller. The problem was, Abby was still very young, but a beefy baby. See?

Weebles Wobble, But They Don't Fall Down

So, there wasn't enough room for Emma to sit with her in the seat. So, Emma, who was very petitewould actually sit in the basket underneath the seat--I'll pause for a second while you scroll back up to look at the stroller. She'd climb in from the back of the stroller and sit cross-legged. She was very comfortable, most of the time. Fortunately for her, once she outgrew the basket the whole thing fell apart. I searched through all of my pictures to see if I happened to have captured that sight, but I couldn't find one.

Sometimes I have to wonder, how do college students make it, and then I remember stories like this--you just make it!