Babywearers can relate. Sometimes you see a color on a wrap that strikes you and you become obsessed with that color! For me, that color is the most perfect shade of pink. And the wrap that got me obsessed with this color is Pavo's Unicorno Pink Lemonade. After I saw this wrap for the first time, I became obsessed with wanting a wrap this color.
The Pavo wrap was an exclusive at the New York Baby Show and, at first, was impossible to get your hands on. Then, when they started going up for sale, I was in the process of saving up for my move and couldn't afford to purchase it at market value. And I wasn't convinced that I loved the Unis pattern. At one point, Pavo and I were commenting about Pink Lemo on IG. I was saying how I dreamed of this color and hoped it would be woven in another pattern. They asked what pattern would I buy in Pink Lemo, but the conversation ended and I doubt Pink Lemo will be woven again anytime soon.
Still, I obsessed over this color!
THEN something amazing happened! I got a PM from Justyna at Ehawee Slings telling me I had won a wrap!!! A PINK WRAP! Not only a pink wrap, though, a wrap called "Flamingos Fly South." The name might seem innocuous to most, but to me the name of the wrap has so much meaning. I was told that I won this wrap just as I was packing to move south -- to Florida!
Two weeks before I moved to Florida, the wrap was shipped from Poland, which should have been plenty of time to get to me before I left Indiana. But it got held up in customs and arrived to Indianapolis and then Bloomington just days after I moved. Before I moved, my mail carrier informed me that all of my mail, including packages, would be forwarded - no problem. Well, the post office got confused and the wrap bounced from Indiana to Florida to Indiana and back to Florida. I thought for sure it would never arrive.
When I got a notice that it had finally made it to the local post office, I called and asked them to hold the package for me so I could pick it up. I did. The poor package had been through so much!!
I was afraid to open it. I could see straight to the beautiful bag holding the pink wrap I had been dreaming of. When I did open it, I found that it was perfectly fine! And amazingly gorgeous!
Even though I wanted to throw it in the wash right away, I didn't. I took my wrap outside for a little photoshoot - a before bloom shot. At first, the wrap was thin, very flat, and a little scratchy. After a wash, though, it puffed up nicely and softened up a bit. There is also a slight texture over the wings of the birds.
The first ups in a new wrap, especially one you had been anticipating for so long, are very special. My five year old, obsesser of pink, wanted the first up. She patiently let me do a double hammock. The chest pass went right into place without any struggle and very little extra tightening after completing the back pass. The second back pass glided across her back and spread nicely. Once tied off, the carry was rock solid.
I held my daughter for a twenty minutes while we watched a cartoon together. She cuddled me as I swayed her. It was so awesome. And extremely comfortable. After the show, I started walking toward the kitchen and my wee cousin ran up to us with a wrap in her hand and turned her back to me, waiting to be wrapped. So, I put her up in tandem with my new Flamingos.
The tandem was also very comfortable. Because Flamingos had wrapped so solidly, it held the second wrap and baby very easily. The toddler got a little antsy after abut 10 minutes and wanted down. This prompted my five year old to get down too.
Of course, I had to put my baby boy up in our new pink wrap! I put him up the first night we had the wrap and we took a walk, but it was too dark to take any good pics. So these pics are from day two with Flamingos Fly South. And it's still love. The color of my dreams has arrived.
Tonight we got our first sleepy dust in the wrap. He napped for about an hour while I cooked dinner and wrote some of this blog.
So, what do I think of this wrap? It's gorgeous. Absolutely gorgeous. It is medium weight and has a slight texture. It was a little rough feeling at first, but it softened up after an initial wash and I'm sure will soften up more with wear. This wrap has a slight stretch that allows it to be pulled really tightly against baby. It has plenty of comfortable and breathable support. This is a great wrap. These birds come in lots of colors, all in limited runs. Ehawee is a new wrap company and I look forward to seeing what else Ehawee offers in the future.
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