High Chair Council

This morning while Daddy was still home, I decided it might be fun to put Ben in Emma's high chair to see if he was big and strong enough to hold himself upright as he is now four months old and possibly ready for solid food.

Big mistake.

No, no, no, Ben didn't get hurt - he is plenty big and can hold himself upright quite well. It's Emma that was the problem. She didn't like it - didn't like it at all that Ben was in her high chair. As a matter of fact, she spazzed. He was gripping the tray of the chair to hold himself upright and she was tearing at his hands trying to dislodge them. She finally gave up on his hands and went right for his head trying to rip him out of the chair!

Of course, we plucked her off of him and tried to explain the whole sharing topic...

For the next few hours she was an absolute pisser. She wouldn't listen to any of my requests. She demanded things and demanded them NOW. Whenever Ben had a toy in his hand and I wasn't watching, she would snatch it out of his hands leaving him staring at her in disbelief as if saying, "I didn't request the high chair - they just did it!"

To top it off, she kept requesting I help her into the chair to sit - something she only does at meal times. She sat in it for over an hour - not eating, just playing with her Little People on the tray and talking away. Basically just using the chair so Ben couldn't.