Ok, I really hoped to get more time in the bucket seats, but nope. My 6 month old beasts are both a hair over 20 lbs and its just to heavy to carry those buckets when I am alone. So we are switching to convertible seats.
help me with logistics. Getting both kids to the car, buckled in, out of the car, and to the destination. Is an umbrella stroller with one and carrying the other going to be my fastest and easiest way? Any other ideas?
Re: Switching from infant to convertible car seats.
I had a double "umbrella" type stroller. It fit in the car, through doorways, it's narrow enough that we could take it anywhere. Generally I would carry them two at a time to the car from the house, and then when we got to the destination, get out the stroller, get out one baby, get out the other.
I have the MacLaren FWIW. I also had a double jogger but it was bigger and not great for everyday excursions.
Olivia and Matilda, 09/10/201 - Graham, 10/01/2013
I still have the buckets but they stay in the car now. If we are at my house I usually load one at a time or sometimes I will carry them both. The double stroller is way to cumbersome so I got those cheaply single strollers and BRU sells thingys so you can attach them together. If I'm making a quick stop I will carry one and push the other ( sounds hard but it's really not) if I'm shopping ill attach them together and throw the reusable grocery bags over the handle bars and load whatever I'm shopping for in that. Unfortunately I always get stares when I have the two attached. But when do goes with us we can each push one. So nice!!
I'd get an Ergo too.
Also, it depends on what situations you're in.
Like I was able to park right in front of my front door (which opened into the kitchen). So I would put one boy in a booster seat/highchair just inside the door. Carry brother out and buckle him in, then come back for the first baby. (People also use a PnP just inside the garage, etc.)
At the destination, it depends. If it's a store, I would try to find a double cart. Often the double carts were inside so I'd grab a single, put one baby in the front of the cart and carry the other on my hip till we got to the double carts. Or wear one baby in the ERgo and put the other in the cart.
If it's a friend's house, if I was able to park close to the front I might carry one baby in, hand them off to my friend and dash back for the other.
Most other places (like church, post office, etc.) I would use the double stroller. (I'm on my own with the boys on Sundays so I used the double stroller at church till they were old enough to not run off and get into everything if I had to set one down. In our case, that was 2.5.)