Above: Graco Quattro Tour Milano Below: Eddie Bauer Montecito
we spent the weekend at babies r us, sears, the bay... trying to find a stoller. apparently i'm to get on this because it may take time for the stroller to come in if we have to order it.
it would be really helpful if we had a mom (not my mom, i mean a mom who went through this in the recent past) help us out and let us know what to look for exactly. i must say, for folks who have never had to deal with strollers before, these things are darn complicated! jesse spent a great deal of time trying to take off a carseat off a chicco, but with no success. we couldn't figure out how to collapse a graco, so a 15-year-old clerk showed us how. we've heard a lot about these "quinny"s, but found the front wheels don't swivel and so it was frustrating to maneuver.
so far, we have two in mind. one is a graco quattro something milano from babies r us and the other is an eddie bauer something or other from the bay. they're both easy to collapse (once you figure out how to do it!), are decent looking (i'm not into crazy patterns for the most part), and are easy to maneuver. of course, they are travel systems so they come with a carseat. the thing we like about the eddie bauer one is that the material is nice and soft, not like windbreaker material (although that might mean it'll be harder to clean up if something were to spill). however, the eddie bauer one has no shoulder harness from what i could see and the umbrella part doesn't go too far down forward.
the price range for the two are similar, i think about $50 difference. it seems like every time we go shopping for baby stuff, we are completely overwhelmed by how clueless we are. i hope this is how all first time parents feel.... not just us...
it would be really helpful if we had a mom (not my mom, i mean a mom who went through this in the recent past) help us out and let us know what to look for exactly. i must say, for folks who have never had to deal with strollers before, these things are darn complicated! jesse spent a great deal of time trying to take off a carseat off a chicco, but with no success. we couldn't figure out how to collapse a graco, so a 15-year-old clerk showed us how. we've heard a lot about these "quinny"s, but found the front wheels don't swivel and so it was frustrating to maneuver.
so far, we have two in mind. one is a graco quattro something milano from babies r us and the other is an eddie bauer something or other from the bay. they're both easy to collapse (once you figure out how to do it!), are decent looking (i'm not into crazy patterns for the most part), and are easy to maneuver. of course, they are travel systems so they come with a carseat. the thing we like about the eddie bauer one is that the material is nice and soft, not like windbreaker material (although that might mean it'll be harder to clean up if something were to spill). however, the eddie bauer one has no shoulder harness from what i could see and the umbrella part doesn't go too far down forward.
the price range for the two are similar, i think about $50 difference. it seems like every time we go shopping for baby stuff, we are completely overwhelmed by how clueless we are. i hope this is how all first time parents feel.... not just us...
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