The Cluttered Pantry

How do you review a table that despite perfect styling, excellent accesories and the sustainable path of being able to litterly grow with your children has turned out to mostly be a source for tears and the need to run for ice packs?

The Land of Nod work/play table

The Wee Kahunas and I use this table, set at the toddler play height of 15 inches, every day.

Weekly themes start out as coloring and drawing, on the rolled out paper, to set up what we will be learning about.

Leggo building is more fun at this height and less likely to result in ouchy foot on tiny leggo piece stepping than when we play directly on the floor.

Playdoh time is sacrosanct in this house as is snack time, both done on this same surface.

The roll of white butcher/drawing paper that is attached to one end of the table is perfect for all of those functions and, thanks to the miracle grow we poured on the girls, very soon we’ll be changing out the short legs to the 23 inch height to accomodate chairs instead of the beanbag seats the tiny tushies are currently sitting on.

We also purchased the full size, 30 inch legs so that when we are ready this solidly built table can be turned into a full size desk.

The table has two good sized drawers that right now are filled wirh crayons, but I imagine will hold makeup and hair doo hickys for pre-teens if we choose to add a mirror behind it and turn it into a vanity table instead of a homework space.

It comes in several colors as well as a natural wood. We chose the white washed because it seemed likely that at some point we might re-paint it anyway.

My issue? At least once a week one of the girls bangs her head on the corner. Hard. It also makes mommy say words like $#@! and #(*&@!! when she hits her shins and knees on it, a vocabulary lesson we are trying to avoid, at least for a while.

Is it asking too much that the corners of a table built for toddlers be umm not corners? Let’s go rounded, or for goodness sake at least less pointy.

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