Rennfest Hair Wreathes
We took the baby to the Maryland Rennaisance Festival on Saturday. And we did it without a stroller. Not because we wanted a challenging day with a cranky baby 50 miles from home, but because the really cool 3-wheel All-Terrain stroller we bought wouldn’t fit in the trunk of the car.
Colorful hairwreathes for sale at the Maryland Rennfest
So we decided we would carry the infant all day in a shoulder carrier similar to the “Baby Bjorn.” He loved it, and we were able to spend the entire day there, drinking beer, eating beef jerky and turkey legs and singing along with Pirate Songs.
We did watch other parents there who had trunks large enough to accomodate the cool 3-wheeled strollers. Without exception, each of those parents were pushing around an empty stroller and carrying the baby- either because the terrain was too bumpy or the baby just wanted to be held.
The only drawback to having a cute baby strapped around your chest all day is that everyone thought it was okay to come up and touch his feet, his hands, his tummy, his cheeks, etc. This usually doesn’t happen in shopping malls or other everyday public settings. But at a Rennfair, I suppose that all of the fair-goers think that everyone there is like a large happy family (albeit an escaped one from a D&D adventure), thus making it okay to touch the baby.
If my wife had mace she would have used it- and often.
LOL I can just picture Jess now!
Sorry we will miss you this weekend, it’s racin’ in Richmond!!!
Suz
Doesn’t he need naps? We can’t do much of anything any more that takes more than an hour or two tops. I find sticking to our wee boy’s sleeping & eating schedule is crucial.
We have been really lucky, I know. This kid is very flexible. He sleeps when he gets tired, which is usually in the car. But when we are walking around, he gets so excited to just be looking around that he will go for hours without seeming to tire out. And when he gets hungry, he eats, but its just bottles for now, which is easy to do on the go.
Once he starts on solids, its going to be harder to stay on the move with the kid.
After reading a host of sleep books, my idea that his schedule could be flexible or happen in the car completely changed. I liked Kim West’s book “Good Night, Sleep Tight” best.
But I guess I wouldn’t recommend reading sleep books with all their statistics and whatnot if you want to continue to have a life. You’d probably become a schedule Nazi like me.