Saying goodbye
Sadly it’s time to say goodbye to enjoyable dinners out. Now that Sam’s officially a toddler he’s completely lost interest in sitting in a high chair for than a few minutes at a time. Since he was just a few weeks old we’ve been dragging him along to happy hours, dinners, leisurely lunches, brunches and late afternoon coffee and pastries and he’s always been a pretty good sport about it. But now his desire to escape the confines of a high chair has won out. He can be okay if there are other kids at the table to play with or people besides his dad and I to entertain him, but when it’s just the three of us his cries and kicking and fighting have gotten to be too much for me to handle. Margaritas are a lot less fun when you’re toddler wrangling. I think we’ve finally gotten to the point where a babysitter is a necessity.
At what point can you bring them back out again?
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August 15th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Oh, don’t give up! Have you tried sitting in booths? We have great luck with our 21 month if we sit in a booth. He hates high chairs, too! We let him stand in the booth beside us and then he doesn’t feel so restricted. We also try to get a window that faces outside - traffic is an awesome entertained for a little boy who loves cars.
We also bring lots of entertainment in the way of toys. It also helps if one of us leaves to let him run around a bit in the waiting area of the restaurant - we return when the food has arrived and that lessens the time he is confined.
August 26th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
For their 21st birthday.