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Joovy Gloo
I absolutely love this travel tent. It folds up small enough you can pack it in a checked bag or take it on as one of baby/toddler’s carry on items. If your child isn’t fussy, you can zip it up and have them enclosed, or keep open. Perfect for floor bed families as you can lay down next to baby/toddler while they fall asleep. Works great for the beach as a nap station or a place to get out of the sun, too! We bought the regular, but this large would fit into their pre-school years! I wish we bought the bigger one, as we are now looking at travel inflatable mattresses that will fit her next year.
Mini Voyager
Sure, you can go out to the store and pick out some toys for the flight/train/car ride, but sometime you’re lazy or overbooked and just want it all to arrive all packaged up in a little backpack. Pick out from age appropriate toys and which ones your child would be most interested in. Worth it for the instagrammable backpack, but also because the toys are great to hold their attention. Our little bag of fun kept our daughter entertained for four flights, a very long plane ride, suppers out in beautiful squares, and when you need a little downtime in between exploring places.
Easy to Take Along Water Bottle
This guy comes along with us anytime we leave the house. Small for little hands, easy to velcro to yourself, or toddler, and an easy-to-open-and-close lid. I love that it’s stainless steel and not plastic and that it comes with an extra straw in case it gets wrecked, lost, or just extra icky and needing a good soak. So far, this water bottle has held up well from being thrown, dropped, and bumped everywhere.
Dry Bags
I love using dry bags when we travel. I started using them when we cloth diapered our baby, and I’ve been using them for swimsuits, as a backup in case an extra pair of pants need to be changed (great for potty training accidents on the go), for dirty clothes in my suitcase. For the longest time I thought that they were wet bags, but they do NOT keep in sopping wet bathing suits. Those that are still damp? Yes, this is perfect for those. Those that are soiled from spilled drinks? Yep. That works for us! I did well, considering I didn’t notice this over a year and a half into using them, though!
They have two zippered pockets, so you can keep clean items clean while the dirty ones wait for the wash. Great for those who are still in the diaper stage and heading out to where there are no garbage cans; just pop your clean diapers and wipes into one pocket, and dirty ones into the other.
Juniper and Daisies 