Practice Makes Perfect

We made a big baby purchase today. I've had my eye on a certain stroller for a few months and today I finally got over it, went to the store and brought it home! I love it. It's the Baby Jogger, City Select. It is perfect for us. We love going down to Town Lake and walking around the trails in our neighborhood, so it's perfect. It also folds up really well and is fairly light weight, so it will travel well with us. The stroller seat snaps in and out, and you can attach your car seat right to it as well. The best part is, there are multiple attachment sites, so we can actually fight two seats on it. Not that we are planning on having a second right away, but we know that we will EVENTUALLY so it makes sense to invest in this now, rather than buy something that we would have to replace down the road... Here's a photo of all the different ways you can set it up. So ADORABLE! I LOVE IT!
You can purchase the bassinet separately and as absolutely precious and it was, I just didn't feel like it would be practical. As soon as we got it home we tore open the box and put it all together. As we were building it, Jagger seemed to be getting a little nervous. I think all the moving parts and smells of rubber wheels was too much. We decided that we would take it for a practice stroll with the dog and see how he would handle it.
***SO SMART***
Although I did feel kind of goofy walking around our usual trail with an empty stroller, I'm so glad that we practiced. At first Jagger was walking really far away, almost pulling me to the side. All I could do was laugh, thinking of Johnny Knoxville doing something similar down a busy city street and letting the dog take off tied to stroller and watching people react (I did not tie Jagger to the stroller, FYI). The wheels obviously made Jagger a bit nervous, but after just a few minutes it was like he'd been around the thing for years. If you have a dog and are planning for your first baby, I would totally recommend practicing your walk with your stroller. You never really know how your pup is going to react to the change at first, and if I were a new mommy going on my first walk with a start like that, I'd feel pretty stressed. No worries now, me and Jagger both have it down.

More to come! Love you all.
Kate