that Inter­na­tional Baby­wear­ing Week is Novem­ber 12–18? I didn’t know that until today.

One of the blogs that I reg­u­larly read is Adven­tures in Baby­wear­ing. In honor of Baby­wear­ing Week, Steph posted a give­away. She is giv­ing away a Pop Nest Sling or a Spar­row Hatch­ling Sling from Nonny & Boo.

If you are inter­ested in win­ning, click on over to her site, and sign up on the Mr. Linky with some baby wear­ing pic­tures or some thoughts about baby­wear­ing if you don’t have any pic­tures. Here are some of my pic­tures. Happy Baby­wear­ing Week!

In Line to See Obama in April

A in the Kozy

K wear­ing Baby Ellie

I have been say­ing this for a while now, and I’m wait­ing for evo­lu­tion to start work­ing on this for me, but I think it’s prob­a­bly not going to hap­pen in my life­time. I sup­pose instead of wait­ing for my extra set of arms, I could look for other solu­tions to my prob­lems. Right now, the biggest rea­son I need (a.k.a. want) that extra set of arms is because A is want­ing to be held a LOT, and I’m try­ing to plan a birth­day party for Jason for this Saturday!

Last night, we were at Tar­get, and I had quite a few things to get. Just as we were in the pop aisle (as I write this, I’m cring­ing think­ing about all the high fruc­tose corn syrup sit­ting in my base­ment!), A decided that he was done with the cart. So, I am push­ing the huge orangey-red dou­ble cart from Tar­get, hold­ing A on one hip, try­ing to con­vince K not to take his seat­belt off and to stay in the cart, and try­ing to find the side of the 12-pack that has the han­dle on it. Why, Mr. Coke Man, do you put it on the shelf with the han­dle side down or to the side? I would love to see the han­dles on the TOP! Anyway…

So, as I’m doing that, i’m break­ing out in a sweat, and my heart is start­ing to pound. I’m hop­ing that I don’t drop either A or the 12-pack of Diet Coke with Lime that I man­aged to palm since I couldn’t find the han­dle. A decides that he’s done being held, and he flips his body down toward the ground. I threw the pop on my cart, and I grabbed him securely. Then, I thought, why am I not wear­ing him???

I cur­rently own two baby car­ri­ers. One is a Kozy Car­rier that I bought when K was about 7 months old. The other car­rier we own is an Ergo Car­rier. If you’re not a baby wear­ing, baby car­rier buy­ing per­son, you might won­der just how many car­ri­ers a mom might need. Well, for me, the answer is at least one more. The Kozy is great. I really like it, but I lent it to my cousin’s wife in June, and I’m hop­ing she’s get­ting a lot of use out of it. (Hmmm, maybe need to check on her and see how it’s going) So, I have my Ergo in my car with me most of the time. A really doesn’t like to be worn in back car­ries. I think he likes to see my face and feel closer to me. He also is pretty tall, so he’s not as easy to wear in the front car­ries as he used to be. That leaves me hip car­ries. The Kozy is a good hip car­rier, but right now mine’s not here. The Ergo, how­ever, doesn’t lend itself eas­ily to a hip carry. You have to unclip the straps and rearrange them. So, I think that instead of wait­ing on evo­lu­tion to give me my sec­ond set of arms, I should buy another car­rier!

Right now, I’m really inter­ested in the Etc. Sling. A friend of mine makes these, and they are very comfy and very rea­son­ably priced. The town where I live is not a huge baby­wear­ing hub, but in gen­eral, if you see a mom (or dad) wear­ing a child, there’s prob­a­bly a 60% chance they are using the Etc. Sling that Erin made. Maybe in a week or two, I will have a new post rav­ing about my new sling! I’m hop­ing.