I'm such a dork about this, I just have to share. My favorite baby-wearing item with my first child was my Ergo, but with this child it's totally my reacher/grabber/gopher (whatsit called?) tool.
It looks like this
. I can pick all the junk up off my floor, get laundry out of the bottom of the washer, *and* retrieve the stupid spit-out paci without bending over and totally messing up how I have DS situated in my sling, or worrying about him flying out the top of the mei tai. Woot! 

It looks like this








