Gimme a boost, baby!
For those of you reading along, you know that I've been on a quest to find a booster seat for my 2 1/2 year old daughter, Madelyn. Her younger brother, Grant, was old enough to need his own high chair but since we live in a small apartment I don't have room for one. He needed to move into Madelyn's Fisher-Price booster that she'd been using since she was six months old. (Btw: I love this booster. It's just as good as a high chair but takes up zero space b/c you just attach it to a chair at your table. The best thing of all is the whole thing can go in the dishwasher -- genius!) But Madelyn was left to sit on her knees to reach the table. She didn't mind this as much as the fact that "Baby Grant is in MY CHAIR!" Convincing her that she was now in a "big girl" chair was blinded by her jealousy that her brother had taken over something that was hers. My tolerance for whining 2 year olds at breakfast is very low. I needed to get her own booster and fast! After my last post about my failed attempt to use a Kaboost, one of my high school friends messaged me on Facebook that I should try the BabySmart Cooshee. That's Madelyn, at left, trying it out for breakfast a couple weeks ago. (And her brother in the Fisher-Price booster I love so much.) Madelyn loves it. She likes to be able to reach the table and sit level with the rest of us; I like how it cleans down easily and somehow grips the chair so it doesn't slide off when she scrambles on. Plus, it comes with a nice little carrying case so you can schlep it to Grandma's (which we did last week). But best of all, she has gotten over the fact that Grant is in her old booster. When I told her at breakfast this morning that I was going to write about the booster and asked her if she liked it, she said, "MY chair? This one? This one is MY chair!" In 2-year-old speak that means Yes.




