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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Our old dining room table was solid core door (free) with $20 IKEA legs. We covered the door with black vinyl. It was childproof, easy to clean and completely hideous. Oh, and the door was 24”
wide, so you could rub knees (and plates) with the person sitting across from you. That dining room table was the equivalent of milk crate shelving or the beach chairs I once passed off for a living room suite.
So we needed a new dining room table. We couldn’t buy our ideal dining room table, of course, it will sport a layer of ground-in burritos, sour cream and blueberries in about a week. (more…)
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
I think my previous entry on high chairs is obsolete. You see, I’ve convinced myself that high chairs are totally useless, unless: you are feeding a very little baby (say, under six months) and need something that can contain this very small baby with a five point harness, tilt this very small baby waaaaaaay back (I’m not sure why this is important, but it seems to be mentioned as an important feature in lots of reviews) and cushion this small baby with lots of padding.
Otherwise (and having not fed Finn solid foods until she was six months old, this is what I should have done) buy the very amazing Healthy Care Booster Seat made by (gasp!) Fisher-Price. I am not a big fan of Fisher-Price, but it’s not because every thing they make is plastic. Really it’s because they employ designers that make plastic look like crap. Which is not a plastic prerequisite (more on totally cool plastic design in a minute).
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Sunday, May 7th, 2006
We’re not big spenders (at least we weren’t until we had Finn, who is very small, but needs a lot of gear). The one thing we do spend money on is eating out. We always ate out, we still eat out, and now Finn eats out, too. We don’t take her to expensive restaurants, but we don’t go to McDonalds either.
Our first dining experience with Finn was a casual place with an outdoor patio; we had pre-approval from the pediatrician. On one of the first doctor visits, we asked if we could take our tiny preemie to the Cowgirl. “Just don’t let her have a margarita,” was the answer. We went on a beautiful June afternoon; Finn was only a few weeks old, and spent half the time asleep in her carseat and half the time nursing.
It’s a little more difficult bringing an older baby out to eat; they’re a little bit messier, a little bit louder, and they require a little bit more attention. Luckily Santa Fe is kid-friendly, and Finn has charmed waiters and restaurant-goers all over town. And we have the Tiny Diner portable placemat.
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Saturday, February 18th, 2006
Yes, You Need a Highchair
After feeding Finn solid food for a few days that we decided we could no longer eat in the living room, Japanese-style, at the coffee table, watching television. We had to eat in the dining room, and Finn had to eat in a high chair.
Without a proper dining room table and chairs, we dragged the patio furniture inside, and went to Target to buy a highchair. At Target we stared at the many highchairs; what were the selection criteria? (If it was simply based on looks, we were in trouble). We ran into my friend Kristin who has two kids, and she told us that cleanability and an easy-to-remove tray were key.
We went back to the highchair section, and after staring at the seemingly homogenous selection of highchairs for an hour we retreated back home, completely overwhelmed, sans highchair.
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Monday, February 6th, 2006
I bought something like five or six nursing bras. For one thing my breasts seemed to change size on an hourly basis.
And they continue to change; sometimes I think they’re almost back to normal (they’re not) and then the next day they’d be humongous again.
And then I got clogs, and they told me that underwires can cause clogs (if you already have a baby and you’re saying, “What’s a clog?” consider yourself lucky, and if you’re pregnant and you’re saying “What’s a clog?” just don’t worry about it unless it happens to you).
And then only the sleep bra was comfortable. And then it wasn’t. Everyone kept telling me “Buy the Bravado!” and I wasn’t convinced because it closed with snaps, and I thought that snaps sucked. But I will tell you what everyone told me: “Buy the Bravado!”
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