When we take our kids places there isn’t always room for all the toys and things. After all when your kids are young you take everything from a bath tub, to crib,s to bottles and bottle warmers. So much stuff!! With Luke we also take the walker and new stroller if we have room.
When it comes time to take everything in the car, we sometimes have to make executive decisions. Do we really need to take the cribs? Yes. What about the food in the cooler for Luke? Yes. All the favorite toys? No. All daddy’s pillows, all 6 of them? No. Luke’s walker? I guess not.
As I’ve mentioned before you can’t get Luke’s walker and stroller in the car at the same time without putting the walker in the front seat. That also goes for when you have a trunk full of items. So when the whole family goes for a few days somewhere and we take the car, we have to make the choice between mommy, daddy or the walker. So often the walker loses out when we go on weekend trips.
We have learned to improvise when it comes to the walker. Most places we go we don’t have a good substitute for the walker so we work on Luke’s one handed walking instead of his independent walking with the walker. But, around Christmas time we did visit Luke’s great-grandma who has a kind of walker with one of those seats that allows her to turn around and sit when she is too tired to walk. Well, Luke was interested in great-grandma’s walker…it was so different! How did it work? So Luke and daddy got started using great-grandma’s walker to walk around the house. Luke was pretty happy about using this new cool walker for a few days. We have to mix things up a little now and then, right?
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