Anka….OXO….OXO….Anka. Yep, everytime that I sit down to feed the baby, I channel Dave Letterman hosting the Oscars. It makes me giggle. I enjoy the unusual names and I love the products themselves. After much deliberation, we settled on getting the Anka Highchair and the OXO tot brand dishes, bowls and spoons in order to aid us in our solid foods adventure.
The Anka highchair was not the first one that we fell in love with, but it was the most practical of the wooden highchairs that we researched. I was dead set on getting a Stokke Trippe Trappe, but that model, while sustainable because it grows with the child, does not have a tray. In the end, I wanted a tray. It gives us an easy clean up option and Tomato is still level with the table, which helps her to feel a part of the meals that we share. Below is the model and finish that we bought. We purchased ours through Amazon, but it can also be purchased through the Buy Buy Baby website and in some stores. I love the use of wood as opposed to entirely plastic, and the tray, while it is plastic, is super easy to clean and maintain. I haven’t yet machine washed the cushion, but it can be thrown in the wash for a good deep clean each week.
So where she eats has been successful as well as the tools with which she has been eating. We went to Buy Buy Baby in order to scope out the plate, bowl and spoon options and boy were there a lot. I do feel a bit overwhelmed when I go to this store. It is my favorite baby store, but the high shelves and the vast amount of options that they have can sometimes be a bit much. Luckily, my DH went with me and helped me walk through the options that we laid out before us. I definitely wanted to avoid any plastics with BPA, and when I can find ones without phthalates and without PVC plastic, I am thrilled. So, when I checked the packaging on the OXO tot products and saw that they are free of all three of the “bad” plastics, I was excited. Of all of the options in the feeding section, this was the only line that was free of all three plastics that we wanted to avoid. We purchased some of the plates, the small and large bowls and several of the silicone coated spoons. I like the silicone coated spoons because they are healthy for the her too.
In addition to the bowls, plates and spoons, we also have the OXO tot sippy cups. Tomato never took a bottle, so she has been using the sippy cup when I am unavailable since she was 5 months. We’ve just been taking the valve out so that it flows a little easier for her. But, I’ll be trying to put it back in and see how she does in the next month. The cup is also BPA, PVC and phthalate free so the quality of the products continues..
All of the OXO products wash up beautifully in the top rack of the dishwasher. The spoons can go in the standard utensils caddy. So, not only are they safe, but they are also easy to maintain.
Next up for the feeding routine is a spill mat. We just had the Mimi the Sardine one delivered, but I need to set it up. I will let you know how it does and how it washes in the near future.
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