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Your privacy is a PRIMARY consideration of AskDrSears.com. Your e-mail address is used ONLY by AskDrSears.com for the purpose of announcing news, events and special offers available only AskDrSears.com registered users. WEEK TWENTY-FIVE - AUGUST 2002
It's highchair time.
I got home from work right before dinnertime and out of the blue Cheryl says, "Put together the highchair. Joshua's now old enough." I don't really know how she knew, or what was different today that made him suddenly ready, but I didn't argue. Cheryl just seems to know these things.
And then suddenly it hit me. With the highchair, I won't have to hold him during dinner. Two-handed eating is back! So there I was, sitting in the middle of the dining room with highchair parts spread out everywhere while the kids were setting the table. The race was on. Would I get the chair put together before dinner was ready? The suspense was so thick you could almost taste it. You're probably wondering, didn't we have a highchair already? Well, like most of our other baby things that we thought we'd never need again, it was long gone. I'm sure you've already guessed that, of course, I got the chair put together just in the nick of time (and it hasn't fallen apart yet, so I think I did it right. There were only 2 screws and one curious little bar left over that I couldn't find anything to do with. I wonder if I should have opened the directions). For the first time in 6 months, Cheryl and I got to enjoy eating our dinner together with two hands. And Joshua was so thrilled to be sitting at the table that he didn't even notice his tray and his mouth were empty. Like water for breastmilk.
Joshua is pretty smart, and it didn't take long for him to figure out that we all seemed very busy with our mouths full during dinnertime and he didn't. He tried to eat a few toys, but didn't seem to like the taste. So we pulled out the old sippy cups that we actually held onto from years ago and gave him one with water. He was curious, then shocked, then thrilled when he discovered he could drink water. We helped him at first, then he spent the rest of dinner chasing the cup around his tray and trying to figure out just where that water came out.
The mess begins.
Of course with the fun of having Joshua in the highchair at dinnertime comes the mess that goes along with it. A few drops of water actually make it into his mouth, and the rest gets spread all over himself and his tray. Then he splashes his way through the rest of dinner. But hey, whatever works, right?
I'm just glad it's only water now. Wait until the real food begins.
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