Things I am learning about having two babies...

The Double Stroller.

I thought I'd done my research.  I knew what I wanted and it sat in my Amazon cart til I was brave enough to pull the trigger.  All was well until I realized -- AFTER the stroller was sitting in my kitchen, mind you -- that the car seat adaptor was no longer available because the manufacturer was re-designing it. Um, how did I miss that?!?!  I pre-ordered the new design and am still waiting for that thing.

But in my tizzy, my little peanut grew enough to fit in with the seat reclined back and the straps adjusted to their lowest & tightest setting.

So today we tested that baby out:

Doesn't Mo look thrilled?

We haven't gone anywhere big -- just around the neighborhood, but so far, so good.  It's very lightweight, collapses with 1 hand and turns on a dime.  It's a very smoothe ride AND fits through most standard doorways.  If I had any complaints, it's that the understorage basket is hard to access, but I knew this when I bought it.  Other complaints I've hard about this particular model is, it's not good if you're on the shorter side, because the handle bar doesn't adjust.  I'm 5'6" and it seems a perfect height for me.

I will say, with strollers (this is my FOURTH stroller I've owned now), you get what you pay for.  Plain and simple.


The Baby Monitor(s)
With Mo, we had a very basic Sony baby monitor.  It got the job done.

I spent hours researching other monitors for when Joey was born.  I was convinced I needed a video monitor this time around.  But then I realized, I don't!  Also, it seems they don't make such a thing as TWO baby units and ONE parent unit (but they do the other way  around).  One solution I read was to get the same monitor and just put them on different channels so they wouldn't interfere with each other if they are analog....so that's what I did.  And so far, it's working fine.  I don't like having to have two receivers to keep track of, but most of the time, Joey is within earshot anyways so I haven't used his monitor much.  I expect we'll use it more when he moves into his bedroom & crib. 

And as for Morgan, I'm  not sure how much longer she'll need one.  When she wakes in the night?  I'm pretty sure the neighbors can hear her crying ; )  I do like it for when she wakes from naps and in the morning though, she plays in her cribs and babbles away quietly.  That's how I know she's up.

I'm learning to utilize this thing even more:

Baby Bjorn carrier

Whichever your carrier of choice is...with the first baby?  It's for fun.  But I think having one with the second baby is a necessity.
How will I go anywhere?  ALONE with TWO babies?!?!

I don't have any good perspective on this just yet - in fact, I'm seriously scared of this...I tried it once.  We went to the park to get out of the house.  Had it not been 105 degrees out, it wouldn't have been SO bad.  But this week we have doctor appointments for both kids.  Don't tell them, but they're both getting shots.  Crap.  I'm doomed.  If anyone has any good advice, I'm all ears!  (PS: I've already begged the Hubs to take off work and suffer this right of passage with me, but no dice.)