Wordless Wednesday

Road Test :: Denim Baby Little Wrap Bag

Our café hopping family have a new addition in our nappy bag. Well actually it’s not in the nappy bag it’s in Mr 3’s “Café Bag”. I really should explain Mr 3’s café bag. Basically it’s a material string bag made by Nanna for Mr 3, which was originally for books from the library but he has fondly named it his café bag and it comes with us everywhere we go when we go out. It’s filled with cars, trucks and other odds and ends he is currently treasuring. Now he has the Denim Baby Little Wrap Bag to pop inside.

Basically the Denim Baby Little Wrap Bag is a cute little child’s artist pouch which comes with 3 Faber Castell pencils, a mini note pad and a spare pocket for other odds and sods. The pencils are very cute complete with characters all over them. We have a ladybug pencil, a turtle pencil and a puppy dog pencil which Mr 3 LOVES and make puppy sounds while he is drawing. (Please don’t get me to explain what a Ladybug or a Turtle says because from the other side of the table it all just sounds like gibberish to me!)

Because it’s made from denim it’s hard wearing and also washable in case of any accidental babycino spillages. Three pencils are ample for Mr 3 and the pouch also dons a cute space-ship and green alien. He is at the developmental stage of using his "imagination" and likes to make up little stories.

Mr 3 : "The alien has already landed, had some toast and ready to fly back to space in his space-ship Mumma!"

Me : "That's just fab sweet-heart."

WE love it because it an easy light-weight addition to the café bag and it’s another tool to keep him entertained when we dine out as a family.

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High Chair Hygiene

There is nothing worse than going into a café or restaurant and plonking your little one into a dirty highchair. They say there are more bacteria growing on a highchair compared to your own toilet seat. Yeah – revolting right.

So let me pose the question to parents who use highchairs in cafes. Do you clean up after your little one has covered the highchair with the daily special? Are you the type of mum or dad that cleans up after them and leaves it nice and clean for the next tiny bottom. Or are you the type of parent who thinks, “l just paid good money for that meal and l believe the staff should clean up after us, we’re paying right”? Then there is also the unknown, do the staff even wipe down the highchairs well or do they just dust it off half-heartedly for the next customer?

Personally l’m a cleaner. I don’t wipe down before we place the bubba in the highchair – l’m not that germ mad but l do clean up afterwards, with a packet of wipes and some elbow grease. Only on one occasion l've totally freaked out about the “hygiene levels” and that was when a large cockroach emerged and crawled over my son’s tray and then disappeared. l did the freak-out-jump –up and down on the spot for 10 seconds following that episode. Cockroaches freak me out!

I understand the café staff are PAID to clean up after us but l just can’t bring myself to walk away from such a devastating mess of bread, fruit, yogurt and god knows what else has been mashed up in my young son’s mouth and then spat back all over the highchair and the floor. And even if the café staff do clean up after l have, at least l know it’s been given a good clean, twice, for the next little bottom.

My husband has been known to give me the ‘hurry up’ on several occasions because l’m down on all fours under the table frantically picking up tiny crumbs and crusts from the floor – slightly a bit obsessive l know but l like to leave things the way l found them. Clean. So next time when you are out and about have a think, are you a squeaky clean mamma or a messy mamma?

Sydney LOVE

Oh my goodness!

That's all l can say right now.

We have only been in Sydney for four days & our little family has already explored so much of this beautiful city.

{We are dreaming of having an apartment on the water - but yes just dreams...}

We can't wait to share with you all the great child friendly cafes we've already found.

Our jeans are starting to get a little tight so a see-food diet may be on the cards when we get home!! {LOL!!}

So stay tuned for the next exciting "cafe news" installment from Hey Bambini.

{We thought we'd just "check in" to let you all know we are still around!}

Until next time we meet lovelies.

Cheers to Sydney