I am jealous. I am really looking forward to the day when Penelope can ride in the trailer (she's pretty strong and we managed to find a teeny helmet, so hopefully around her first birthday), but I am also regretting a bit that we bought the ultra-slick Chariot single trailer instead of a double Burley. We were thinking we'd mostly be doing family picnic rides every weekend on the bike trail, and at the time we were choosing the trailer there were a bunch of stupid barriers up on the trail that my husband thought would be difficult if not impossible to navigate with a double Burley.

But I am all about utility and being able to haul what I need to haul. Right now I am a pedestrian -- I've got a stroller with a huge shopping basket, and Penny and I run all the errands on foot, which I love. (While I was pregnant I was getting gas often enough that the guys at the gas station knew my due date. Now I'm back to filling the tank every three months -- have only filled it once since she was born!) This stroller will only fit her for about nine months, though, and the big kid strollers just don't have the storage space. I hope that we can do the shopping with the Chariot plus the baskets on my bike, but I might have to reconsider the whole single-speed situation!

I told my husband I was eventually going to get an Xtracycle and he said, "Not with my baby on board, you aren't." Apparently Mr. Let's Take The Baby Rock Climbing! thinks that the little surfboard seating arrangement is totally unsafe. And I have to admit that it looks a bit precarious. The one person I know who rides one with kids has dumped her seven-year-old at least once, too.