Highchairs.

Dear Expectant Parents, One day your little bundle of joy is going to start solids. And you're going to think to yourself "oh goodie, now I get to go out and look at all the awesome highchairs on the market" and off to Baby Bunting or Babies R Us etc you will go. And you will place your little one in all the highchairs and marvel at how cute they look in their big boy/girl highchair. And finally you will decide on the $150 highchair or the $249 highchair or maybe you'll go nuts on the $370 highchair. And you'll take it home, and unpack it. You'll put it all together and excitedly await the first chance you get to begin using it. And for the first few months it will be great, because little Johnny or little Jane can't make mess yet. Not real mess. Not "there's so much of your meal in every crack & crevice of this highchair at every meal that I'm beginning to wonder how it is that you're actually not starving like a third world child because surely none has gone in your mouth". No, that fun doesn't start until around their first birthday. And it continues until well past their 2nd birthday. And one day, one rainy December day, you will decide that you hate the stupid, reclining, 4 height settings, padded insert, two tray, lockable wheeled $140 highchair you have and that if you have to scrub it ONE MORE TIME then you're going to scream. And you will get in your car and go buy the $25 Ikea highchair that all the experienced parents recommended in the beginning because it is simple, basic and sooo easy to clean. And you will sigh a big sigh of relief and curse yourself for being too snobby to get it in the first place. So, dear expectant parents, me save you the trouble... just buy the damn Ikea highchair from the start!!

A thought for the day...

Is there anything more beautiful then watching my son's nudie-bum go toddling off down the hallway as fast as he can because he's so excited for bath time? Sometimes I love this kid so much that my heart aches #besotted