You know, when I wrote this entry, I was hoping for some good suggestions for suitable highchair replacements. There were several awesome suggestions, but the one that occurred the most and was within our budget was the Fisher Price booster seat. I think at least five of you said you used that one and I’ll pretty much do anything you all say you do. I’m really just a lemming. It also met two of our requirements: Cheap and Not Crap. Portability was a bonus.
Unfortunately, like a dumbass, I opted for the cheaper version in the picture you see above. For five dollars less? I got the biggest piece of crap in the world. The “snapping” mechanism on the tray was awful because you had practically slam it down to get it to latch. It required brute force. Heaven forbid if there had actually been a baby in it.
Now, I will say this: There is a chance that our unit was faulty (heh - faulty unit), but it seemed more to be just lame. And also incredibly dangerous. And useless. When I returned it? They asked if there was anything wrong with it.
Well, it’s not broken, if that’s what you mean. But, it’s an incredibly crappy design.
This is what we bought when we took the first one back. It is such a simple design with a latching mechanism not intended to chop your baby’s fingers off! How novel! I should have listened to you all the first time. I promise not to make that mistake again. Your word is golden from here on out.
I just love you. That is all. You are so funny. Thank you so much for brightening my day. And I think your kids are so adorable.
What I love most about the FP booster seat is the lack of CREVICES. I am very near to just using THAT all the time. Once the weather officially gets cold and we have no need for pushing the regular high chair onto the deck, I may do that.
Awwww, I’m so sorry to hear you were sick Zoot… but the new highchair is looking good! I hope you and NikkiZ are feeling better today.
I second Cagey’s comment about the crevices. The fluffy highchair stuff aways gets all gunked up and I don’t want to have to deal with that. We have a FP one that is a little different, in that it has an adjustable seat that reclines so we could use it before he sat up completely. But It’s the same idea. And if it gets really gross, you can hose it off, or put it in the shower. Yeah for NikkiZ’s new seat! Now if you could only keep her from throwing up what she eats off that tray…
I almost recommended this one (FP, NEVER Safety 1st. Everything we’ve bought that’s Safety 1st has had issues.) but I wasn’t sure it lived up to your requirements since it does have the snappy tray. But now that I think about it, it really does. We love ours. We also have a high chair but that little booster is SOO easy. It’s also easy to leave the tray off and just slide them up to the table (buckled in of course) with the rest of the family. You do have a messy table to clean later, but you’d have that anyway. And they can stay in as they grow. I hope you continue to like it
You know, I almost bought the Safety 1st version when I got our FP booster seat, and I’m really glad now that I didn’t. Sometimes, it’s better to just go ahead and part with the extra $5 to get a better product.
You won’t regret your decision. Heck, this many of your readers can’t be wrong!
Enjoy!
We love the FP booster too. I third (or fourth or fifth?) the comment about the lack of crevices! My only regret… that I bought it to leave at my mom’s house rather than using it as our main high chair (we’ve also got a Chicco at home that I bought primarily cuz it looked so darn cool… dumb reason to buy a highchair!).
Just wanted to say too that I love reading your blog. I’ve been guilty of lurk-dom recently (not commenting much)… but I hope to come out of my lurky ways. My day is not complete without your posts!
ah. i’m such a big fan of fisher price….
(you hear that peg perego? i LOVE my fisher price high chair)
I may have to switch to a booster seat like that soon. Is there an age? I don’t know anything!!
I KNOW, girl, I know. One of the hardest parts of being a good cheapskate is learning when you have to kick up a few more simoleons for extra quality. Still working on that one myself, actually. Baby jr. looks so grown up in her booster!
okay so I didn’t give the advice but I’m around to reap the benefits or something. I love that chair. IN fact the crappy, falling apart highchair that I bought at a garage sale because it looked cool and I didn’t have a child yet and so didn’t realize that the safety belt was indeed a key feature to keep your child from plummeting to the ground, was thrown out before baby two was born because I was going to subject myself to the stress of not being able to leave the fice foot radius of death that the highchair actually came to symbolize.
my point? Yes. I love that snap chair, I usually just leave it on the floor, because um. we actually dont’ have any chairs in our house. Seriously. We have stools. heh. stools. but we take it camping and it is really portable ad easy to clean. LOVE IT. thougth about getting a second one but Moo is sitting at his little table now..he actually has a chair.
And when she grows out of that one, I recommend the “Baby Smart Cooshie Booster.” Besides having an awesome name it is easy to clean and doesn’t need to strap on to the chair. And it has a travel bag!
You all are too cute over there!
Oh, good LORD. I just read this and we bought one yesterday. The exact same POS you did. Joy. And we did the cheaper five buck verson because WHY? Yea. Right with ya on that decision.