My red Tripp Trapp seat by Stokke is still being used by my five-year old on a daily basis. We bought it for her older brother, which means we have used it for every meal at home for at least six years. We love this thing.
Since it’s the dead of summer for most of you, I was thinking about how one might give their young toddler the opportunity to do some water play in a highchair tray.
Now I see that giggle sells Stokke trays that can attach to the Tripp Trapp chair.
Very clever, no?
Depending on the set up of your dining room table, or lack thereof, different variations of the highchair may work for you. My house is way too small to have a dedicated high chair; when my babies were new eaters, we used a feeding chair that strapped into an existing dining room chair. Some use a bouncy seat or a swing at first. You have my permission to try it.
At grandma’s house, we used a portable clip-on chair, also great for folks who want to feed their babies at a breakfast bar. (My friend Steph used the clip-on chair instead of a high chair, period.)
Other good stuff on giggle this month:
Keeping cool with your belly and your baby
4 ideas for a modern baby shower
We are contributors to the giggle blog, GAB, and post these reminders monthly to let you know what we’ve written over there.
We love our Tripp trapps here, my son was not ready to move on when my daughter arrived hence we have 2 with no thought of moving them out of them anytime soon.
We have an Ikea antilop at grandma’s house, another high chair worth every penny, all $40 of them. (he he) (I know it’s cheaper elsewhere) though I wouldn’t want it as my only high chair.
Love the idea of water play in the high chair! I think my little guy would have a blast with that one! We just bought a tripp trapp for him, and love how it fits so nicely in our small house.
We are huge Stokke fans and have Tripp Trapps for our 4.5 and 1yo boys. We also had the Newborn seat for our little one when he was born, although I don’t think it’s available in the US. That seat meant Oscar was at our table with us from literally Day One, which we all loved very much, every day. We have the Tripp Trapp play tray that sticks to the table, but I think an after-market clip-on tray defeats part of the main specialness of the Tripp Trapp which is that the kids joins the family at the table. I love these chairs though, and look forward to many many more years of them.
We had a hand-me-down Svan (with tray) that worked for awhile until the boy started refusing to go in it when he was maybe 15 months old – ? We tried to push it up to the table (with the guard on but no tray) but eventually moved to a booster seat strapped on a regular kitchen chair (still with tray). Now that he is over 2 and much sturdier on a chair, maybe we’ll bring the Svan back and use it as a tall chair pushed up the table. It would be nice to have him join the family meal!
We love our Tripp Trapp. Our girls (now 9 and 5 years old) love it so much that we have to set up a schedule for when each of them uses it: 5 year old (m-f) and 9 year old (sat-sun). Crazy, right? I’m sure they’ll be fighting over who gets to take it to college.
@Pam, that’s hilarious. I love hearing that kind of thing about what goes on in other people’s houses.
I looovveee everything Stokke makes… the stroller, the crib, the high chair.. ALL of it
But the high chair is awesome, my son still likes using it, as opposed to the other traditional looking one at grandma’s in which he throws a fit because “its for a baby”