Last night the Regina and I went out to a national department store chain to register for baby stuff. Two people who have never been parents deciding what they will want/need to raise a child with minimum stress so that people who are parents and have already been through the experience will know what to get for us as presents. Hunhh? Got me, but we have to do it.
We didn't actually get around to registering for anything, because we spent two hours reviewing the different baby travel systems. Yes, the little Rex is going to be riding in style - air, land, or sea - after we settle down with the deluxe carry all system (don't forget the baby) that the post-Christian self-serving Eddie Bauer materialistic is good upper middle class yuppie culture is forcing upon us. We cannot (I repeat cannot) purchase a safety device without going whole hog on one of these things. For my pedia-challenged readers, the system is something like this. We selected the Comfort Dimensions system. It was lighter than the Graco systems and seemed to have more overall features in a value system. But, the Regina will have to double check Consumer Reports. How did we ever survive childhood?