The Cluttered Pantry

When we started shopping for the items we’d need to hit the ground running with the “wee kahunas” we worked our way down the long list of things for a nursery…and then it suddenly hit us that we actually needed to be setting up the rest of the house for the tiny people we were bringing home from Siberia.

We have a large dinning room table, it’s made from barn boards as old as our house, and seats 10 people. But the dinning room itself isn’t actually all that wide. once you get the table, the chairs, a side board to hold knick knacks and my hilariously large collection of cook books there isn’t much room for two giant high chairs with those big trays.

It also seemed to us that being able to actually sit next to us, instead of an arms/trays reach away, might be a great way of bonding with the girls, and help us transition meals for them from the orphanage assembly line experience into a social activity.

Enter the Tripp Trapp High Chair from Stokke…well, actually two of them.

They are completly adjustable, solidly built and with multiple color options, modern but without the spaceship styling of some of the other high chairs we looked at.

It slides right up to the table so no need for a tray, and as the girls grow (seriously, 10cm in five months for our oldest daughter) we just adjust the seats and feet thingy down so they still can sit comfortably.

Shipped flat like most IKEA furniture, but it took less than ten minutes to put together (not like most IKEA furniture.)

They are actually designed to let you start with an infant using a click in device that holds them from shlumping over all the way to a full grown adult to use as a desk chair.

I can’t promise that it will last until our children are adults. We keep taking them out onto the back deck so the girls can eat with us at the picnic table after playing in the pool. I’m afraid that tiny wet tushy marks are starting to show up in the paint…soon peeling seems likely to occur. But we really really like the chairs and I’d happily recommend them – oh, wait.. I just did!

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