A productive rainy Saturday

This weekend we are finally just home. But - it's raining horribly all day long, so nothing can be done outside. So for a change we had a really productive crafting day. :) 

It was kinda nice - I was sewing for Adelaide and Mr. Husband was making a table for her, and Adelaide was playing around us. 

This is my job done.. 

Nothing special, but she needed a few more bibs, as her saliva is running like crazy. Maybe some teeth is coming?
And I made her another bib for eating, as we never seem to have a clean one. :)

But the table is great! :) It's a cube-style Montessori weaning table and chair.

We wanted to have it already in the spring, and the chair was ready in the spring. But then summer came with more important things..

A little explanation - traditionally Montessori people suggest a baby, once he or she is able to sit, has her own small table and chair, and that it should be used for eating as well, from the very beginning, as oppose to the high chair. The reason is that it gives more independence, baby can sit down and lift up as he wishes, as oppose they usually can't get in the high chair themselves.
Not everyone Montessori-minded does it exactly that way though, as many support the Baby Led Weaning (it also supports independent decisions of the child), including dinner with all the family at the table, which includes high chair then.
As for me eating together as a family matters a lot, we naturally went that way, and I didn't ever plan to use this weaning table and chair for actual weaning or eating, that is.

However, having a little own table and chair is great for so many other reasons! Also after the Montessori method it can be used for many activities - for example, different practical life activities - little tasks for such small children, that take an action from real life and give them a chance to practice it.

That's why I wanted for her to have these - while I'm cooking in the kitchen or doing anything else, she can have her own tasks, and she can do them now sitting at her table, not on the floor.
She can also use them for sitting and drawing or modelling, or playing with anything.

Well, like children usually do have a table and chair - even in a totally usual world - but those are always for way bigger children, as the ones you can buy are always much bigger, and a little one like this (or a 6-12 month old!) definitely can't sit on it, feet wouldn't reach the ground, and they would have trouble getting up and down themselves.

So the option is either to order it for quite much of money, or to make one yourself. And lucky as we are, Mr. Husband is pure gold and can make beautiful things like this. :)

So here Adelaide is testing her new set.. I gave her one small activity to do - putting small wooden sticks into the holes of an empty pepper jar. Great for tiny little fingers. And she seems to like it. ;) She definitely likes the chair. And she wanted to crawl on the table..

P.S. They were made after measures that I found on the internet, suitable for very small children. They would have been perfect already in the spring, and are fine still. Once she grows too big for it, the table is possible to turn around and then it becomes a chair, and can be used together with any higher table.