No more highchairs for this family

After 8 years we have officially become a highchair free family. We recently bought a bigger table in anticipation of this day, but really weren't expecting it just yet. In fact I kinda liked the highchair for Miss Lainey, as once I strapped her in the 5 point harness I knew she was safe in there for a few minutes while I caught up on dishes and she stayed put to eat. (Yes she needed the strap otherwise she liked to try to escape, which was too unsafe for her) The last few days she has become OBESSED with climbing in the highchair by herself just to play with the straps and  try to buckle herself in. I couldn't figure out how she got in til I sat and watched her. That smart little 18 month old would slide a kitchen chair over to the highchair to climb on and then get into the highchair. That was the moment I said enough of that. So today we took a trip to the store to find a booster seat and got it all ready for dinner tonight. I must confess I was extremely nevous as to how dinner would go, would food be on the floor, would she stay in the chair?

 Today was also the first day she got food on a plate, which I thought for sure would ALL end up on the floor, but not once did she even make an attempt to toss it down. As always we moms get so worked up over something so silly and in the end it works out just fine.

So thank you Lainey Bug for making this transtion so easy on your mom.

Welcome to the big table my Love!