Boys will be boys

We went pram shopping yesterday. Well, I tagged along because I didn't trust 3 boys to come back with a pram. I was right though because much of the time, the 3 boys were standing in front of 2 transparent plastic boxes, drooling. Why?

Because, this was in the boxes.



The one on the left is $18 500 or something like that, has a leather seat and 9k gold plated handle bars with a carbon fibre underneath. Apparently, there are only 20 in the world. It's the epitome of crass-ness. I cannot imagine who would put their kid in it. Plus, a leather seat and a child's puke and possible leaky poo and pee, not a good combination.

Then there was the one beside it, that was comparatively dirt cheap sans gold handle bars going for a mere $2800. I think, all my baby furniture put together doesn't even cost that much and I'm furnishing for two.

Anyway, when the boys had finished ogling at it and we actually went to look at affordable prams. First we looked at this one.



Which I liked but thought was a little bit costly. It looked sturdy and collapsed quite easily, which is important because my brain has no ability to work gadgets. So we went on to look at this one, which was about $200 cheaper.



Which was cheaper but suddenly looked a lot more flimsy and a lot less durable than the previous one.

Back we went, to the previous one where the boys put it through its paces. I was amused, watching the boys, collapse it, run it up and down the store aisles, basically examine every single bit of it. If it were left to me, I'd be like, "er, what colour does it come in?" and that would be the extent of my contribution.

So, all in, it was useful to have them around once their attention was properly focussed. But we all agreed that most fascinating thing in the store was this mobile that had four adults riveted for a long long while. In the end, we decided to buy it and they gave us a discount so we were most pleased. The only dilemma was whether to buy one or two. Well, Wahj decided one would get this and the other would get some WOW related thing to which my face crumbled. So he changed his tact to buy one and teach them to share which appeased me a little bit more. :)

A fun and fruitful shopping trip and I'm eternally grateful for all who are contributing to the baby-mover. :)

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