Kid Essentials – Graco pushcart review

I, like most moms, cannot imagine bringing up my little one without a push-cart. When he was born we purchased this @graco push-chair for him. Initially we used to use an attachment on top of it which was multi-utility (carry cot+infant car seat). We preferred to buy the graco push cart because:

a) It is extremely sturdy. Even if I hang shopping bags+diaper bags at once, it doesn’t lose its balance

b) it comes with a wonderful multi utility attachment that is ideal for infants because it is attached on the top of this chair and the baby is facing whoever is strolling. Also, the attachment can be used as a rocking baby carry cot and a detachable car seat, which is extremely convenient.

c) It is very spacious and has ample room for keeping and hanging multiple bags at once. .

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Drawbacks-

a) It is not light weight like strollers so you might want to think if you need to use this while travelling.

b) I didn’t find the baby locking system very easy to use. It takes some juggling between the multiple belts provided but I don’t mind it because how safe it keeps the baby.

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Highly recommended to anyone who is looking forward to buy a multipurpose and sturdy push cart.

Couscous Salad

I don’t always eat salads, but when I do, I make sure they look like a garden with flowers of all colours 😍.

Never have I ever made a wimpy+boring salad. For me to eat a salad, it has to be aesthetically very pleasing and extremely satisfying for my taste buds.

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Loved today’s lunch – super delish, Couscous Salad. Such a feasty looking bowl with just about the right balance of healthy carbs+proteins+vitamins and most importantly, amazingly palatable.

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What’s even more important is that my mini man loved gorging on sucha a colourful bowl of food.

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How I made it – tossed in cooked couscous, cherry tomatoes, english cucumber, red onions, red and yellow bell pepper, avocado, beets and chickpeas. Tossed salt and pepper and garnished with lemon and parsley 👉🏼👉🏼good to go!

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Try out this amazingly fulfilling and power packed salad and let me know if you love it.

Little traveller, dreaming to explore

Last week, while I was surfing over the internet to order some books for baby K, I came across this 🗺 world map from @collins_booksellers that I reluctantly added-to-cart on @amazondotin, not quite sure whether it was going to be of use for now or not.

However, this bright and lovely map is working as a charm in his room. It is so interactive in itself, baby K can’t stop pointing over and being amused by how pretty it is. He can now spot his country on it.

Not that I mean to mug up information in his brain but it really is lovely to see how he is so curious seeing so many versatile things he can relate with on his wall.

Pre-school dilemmas

I have never really shared an ‘eat-together, sleep-together’, kind of a relationship with anyone else (besides my mother, when I was little), apart from my mini.

Since, we have been constantly clinging to each other, ever since we entered each other’s lives, it made the decision of his pre-schooling one of the most major decisions of my life (just imagine we have only started making decisions for him 🙄).

Which, when and where to pre-school your child is the most sought after question of parents these days. Here’s how I contemplated –

Which: my only concern while looking for a pre-school was how hygienic its surroundings were. Pre school is not just to make your kid learn but also to build his immunity towards the outside world, however, since this is the first routine social interaction the child has in his life, you don’t want to send him somewhere with lower cleanliness standards.

When: I am a SAHM, so I decided to not send him to pre-school until he turns 2.5 yo. This decision entirely depends on the parent’s professional status as well as how interactive your surroundings are and how much you can make your child learn even at home. I spent a good time making him learn numbers, colours, rhymes, dining habits etc. for him to grow mentally and also to channelise the abundance of energy he has.

Where: the closest to the house/your working place. Believe me you, living in a place like Delhi, the wisest decision I could make was to admit him into a pre-school approx half a km from our house. You cannot burden them with a routine and uncanny traffic hours all at once.

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This is a picture of a super happy mom and kid who made the wisest choice according to us. What are your ideas of pre-schooling your little one?