I have been spending a lot of time at home lately. Between Mini Whipped’s 7:30pm bedtime and the dark, cold winter, we have been a bit homebound. Luckily, I have been feeling extra cozy in my house of late and have been especially appreciating some of our “things.”
This Stokke chair has been our best purchase in the past year. I had seen Stokke chairs at friends’ houses and I always appreciated the sleek Scandinavian design. However, that is not the main reason I love it so much now that we own one. Mini Whipped sits on this chair pulled up to our table for all of her meals. Without the usual tray in front of her, she truly enjoys the family mealtime. She pipes in during conversation with her own babytalk stories, shares sips from my grown up water glass, wants tastes of everything we are eating and has recently started offering us back a few of her Cheerios.
The Stokke chair is not cheap. We happened upon this one at a second hand children’s store for nearly nothing. But, after dozens of the most-fun-ever, memorable family mealtimes with 9-month old Mini Whipped by my side, I would pay the full price many times over.
p.s. modeling the chair is our monkey pal, Jelly. He was given to us by this artist and his talented gal. Said artist also painted the piece on the wall.
January 27th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
that looks amazing… I’ve never heard of that before!
January 28th, 2009 at 3:36 am
i’ve made a mental note to buy a stokke chair when we have kiddies. the great thing is that the chair grows with the child too. love it!
January 28th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
What an adorable story and chair too! I’ll have to be on the lookout for one. Mealtime is such an important part of our day too…I try to get the three of us (soon to be four of us) around the table every night…not always possible, but the majority of the week we can be found there at the dinner hour. Very special stuff! (P.S. – I hear you regarding the winter…we’re in PA and were socked with a snow/sleet storm last night…I’m counting the days to spring which is also my due date! :)
January 29th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
What a cute chair. I love it!
January 29th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
cute!!! I can’t believe mini whipped is almost a year old.