Screw you Gerber!

Back in the heady days when we thought it would take forever to use up $500 of credit at Babies R Us, we contemplated getting a swanky highchair. Pneumatic lift, 1 piece molded plastic seat, made with style and flair... why not? We quickly realized $500 doesn't actually go that far, so we did a complete 180, and went ultracheap with the Ikea Antilop--$25 with the tray, and a similar, one piece, easy clean seat!

Owen hasn't complained about sitting in it in the trial runs, and Carter Hale and Myra Streit survived their meals using it. So we were all ready to give Owen his first try of solids this weekend, but all we needed was the right feeding utensil. Having been interested in the Boon high chair, I became familiar with their other products, generally well reviewed, if not sometimes a little overkill. On a previous visit to BRU in May, we got the Boon Squirt, which keeps the rice cereal in the handle and the feeder can squeeze the feed onto the spoon. In retrospect, this seems more neat than super functional, but it's possible I don't have enough experience to know what I'm talking about.

We returned with our BRU haul, and as I'm prone to do, I researched what we just bought, rather than being prepared and doing it before hand. The Squirt has BPA! But a BPA-free version was scheduled to be available later in the summer. Joanne made another sojourn to BRU on Saturday to exchange the Squirt, but, alas, the BPA-free Squirt was not yet available. In what can only be described as knowing her mate well, Joanne bought two types of spoons, knowing the chances of getting one I'd be happy with on only one try was small.

It didn't even take any reviews to make my choice. On the back of the Gerber spoons, it says, in its entirety:

Long, slim handle makes feeding baby easier for mom

The hell?! Did the ink for "and dad" cost too much? If my mom didn't read this blog (hi Mom!), I'd be busting out some F-bombs (No, Mom, i wouldn't actually do that if you weren't a reader. I don't have a potty mouth. Honest!). Seriously, who are the ad wizards who came up with this one?

So the Meal Mates it was. Just on principle.

Sunday, July 27, Owen got his first "taste" of something not from a bottle. And a taste may have been all it was. I'm not sure anything actually went down, but at least he had a fun time with it!