No...elle did not get a pet but rather a new pediatric wheel chair...The Stingray. The chair was long over do as elle had outgrown the Kimba, her previous chair. Yes, we call things by name around here..especially strollers seeing as elle has a plethora of them. After living with the Kimba Spring for 3 1/2 years, I knew exactly what I wanted and didn't want in the next stroller. Yes, I know...it's a wheelchair but I still refuse to call it that..hence..."stroller."
Elle has so much room and is so comfortable in it. I absolutely love it. It has a carbon fiber frame which makes it extremely light, the seat detaches from the frame allowing me to load it very easily into the SUV. All adjustments are made with an allen wrench which makes minor adjustments at home both possible and easy. Nothing like having a random piece of the chair fall off and not having the ability to reattach it at home :-(
Best of all...you can literally strip the seat down to the frame in less than 2 minutes, it's machine washable and dries surprisingly fast overnight. The chest harness and lateral plates are covered in a removable, neoprene cover that slip right off and also pop into the washing machine!! Overall..it's a brilliant design. This should last little pee-wee for the next 4 years...hopefully.
As for the Kimba Spring....we made the decision to donate it to Wolfson Children's Hospital. We hope that it can bring a sense of independence to a child, to allow them to sit at the same level with others, to be able to go places they may not have been able to access and to go farther then their parents were able to physically carry them.
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