***Balboa Baby Shopping Cart Cover Review and GIVEAWAY***Start The Year In Style

 ABOUT THE COMPANY:

"Balboa Baby's goal is to create fashionable and functional products to make life simpler for parents and better for babies. Balboa Baby designs contemporary, unique products using luxurious fabrics and distinctive prints. We will continue to find innovative ways to make parents’ lives easier, their babies happier and to give them both opportunities to bond and experience life together. Cuddle your baby."

OUR REVIEW: 

Shopping carts have always made me cringe. Especially at certain stores that never clean their carts and they have nasty sticky gunk all over them. All of the germs that are on them and we are supposed to sit our children in them?? Especially in the winter time when all of the nasty bugs are going around. Yea, stores might have disinfectant wipes by the carts, but 99% of the time the containers are empty so what help is that. When Monkey was small and I sit him in the cart he would always try to suck on the cart handle because as we all know everything goes in the mouth......ICK! I finally just started wrapping a blanket around the handle so that he couldnt get to it. 

I was so excited when I heard from Balboa Baby about doing another review with them. When I heard that I was going to be able to review a cart cover I got even more excited!  When we received the cover I put it straight into the diaper bag to try out the next time we were at the store. 

The awesome thing about the Balboa baby cart cover is that it can be used in a cart or on a high chair. A while ago I had bought a cheap cart cover at a garage sale. I was excited when I found it, but after the first time of using it I never used it again. It was in like 4 pieces that you had to figure out how to put together every time, it had no strap so he could easily stand up, and wasn't tight on the cart so every few minutes I had to sit him back up because his bottom would slide down.

 The Balboa Babt cart cover is SO easy to put on the cart. All you have to do is figure out what side is the front and slip it onto the cart. Twenty seconds and you have a cart cover on the cart for your little one to sit in.   I also love that it has a nice comfy strap that goes around his belly that holds him into the seat. I cant wait until Baby D is old enough to be able to sit in the cart so that I can try it with him too.

Over all I am VERY happy with the cart cover and amazed at how well it fits onto the cart, how well it stays on the cart, and the quality and workmanship of it.

Make sure that you check out all of the different fabrics that their cart covers come in. I absolutely LOVE the different colors that Balboa Baby carries. They are so beautiful and many are very gender neutral so they will work with a boy or girl. Go HERE to check out all of their fabric options.

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1 - 100% soft quilted cotton – machine washable. Provides a 360 degree germ-free zone. Folds to a compact, convenient size that can be easily stored in a diaper bag.
2 - Four elastic corners for easy one-hand installation.
3 - Toy loops to attach baby’s favorite playthings.
4 - Extra wide safety strap comfortably keeps baby secure while attaching cover to shopping cart or high chair.

Simple and fashionable providing a clean & secure environment for babies
The soft, quilted Balboa Baby® Shopping Cart Cover provides a clean and secure environment for babies. The Balboa Baby® Shopping Cart Cover creates a comfortable “nest” for baby with a 360 degree germ free zone. Combining simplicity and convenience, the Shopping Cart Cover features four elastic corners that secure Cover to the cart while providing easy one-hand installation. Toy loops allow you to attach baby‘s favorite playthings, and an extra wide safety strap comfortably keeps baby secure while attaching Cover to shopping cart or high chair. And unlike other bulky covers, the ultra soft quilted material of the Balboa Baby® Shopping Cart Cover folds up so small that it can fit into your diaper bag so you will always have it with you. It also doubles as a highchair cover when dining at your favorite restaurants.

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WIN HERE!!!

Balboa Baby has generously offered a shopping cart cover to one of my readers in winners choice of color!  

MANDATORY ENTRY:  

First you need to be/become a public follower of my blog and then head over to Balboa Baby and tell me another item that you would love to have or what print/color you would pick for the cart cover if you won.
 

(Mandatory entry has to be done before ANY others are valid)
Be sure you leave me your email address in your comments so I can contact you if you win.  Your blogger profile also must be public so that I can make sure that you are actually following.

EXTRA ENTRIES: 

2 Entries Each-Subscribe by E-Mail

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2 Entries-Blog about this giveaway (Must be a NEW blog post and link back to this giveaway and to Balboa Baby)

1 Entry Per-Enter in my other current giveaways (1 entry per) 

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1 Entry-Follow me on twitter and tweet about this giveaway (you may tweet 4 times daily-must be at least 2 hours apart-you must leave a comment with the link for each tweet)

Enter to #Win a Shopping Cart Cover

from @BalboaBaby & @MonkeyTalesBlog

 #giveaway http://bit.ly/hWHZvV (3/15)

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This giveaway will close on Mar 15th, 2011 at Midnight CST and is open to U.S. addresses only. The winner will be drawn via random.org - Winner will be contacted by email when their name is drawn and will be given 48 hours to claim their prize before another winner is drawn. I will also post the winner to this blog when their name is drawn.   

 

Thank you to Balboa Baby who provided us with the previously stated product/s at no cost in exchange for our review and will also be providing the winners item/s as well! I was not given any monetary compensation for writing this review. The product itself did not persuade my personal beliefs or views. I was under no obligation to write a positive review . The views and opinions expressed in this blog are purely my own and any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified by the above mentioned store, PR,or product designer. Others may have a different opinion on the same product but this is mine.