You have now officially graduated to a high chair for eating and hanging out at the dining table; your vibrating bouncy chair is being retired to very occasional floor duty. Your chair is an old school wooden one (antique store sale) with a tray that comes up and over your head, and a leather snap safety leg-divider. Daddy added some of his own safety engineering with a Mustang replica seatbelt that goes around you and the back of the chair. A phone book serves as your booster seat.

Like all babies, one of your new favorite pastimes is conducting theory of gravity experiments by pushing your toys (and anything else) off of your high chair tray and onto the floor. Sometimes you even look right at Mommy or Daddy and smile when you do this as if you are the most endearing baby in the world. Daddy’s next engineering marvel: a strap to keep your chair toys from hitting the floor…