When we got to Grandma’s for the holidays, she had a big surprise for Phil in the form of a table he could stand at to play with his toys. Little boy was all over it for the entire 2.5 weeks we were there.

This week was back to the grind in the home office. And about 3 minutes after starting work, I heard Phil making his very frustrated “UHHH UHHHH UHHHHHH!!!” right behind me. I turn around, and he’s got his huge car transport toy halfway on and halfway off the dog crate, which he’s trying to use as a table to stand at.

I help him get the car on top of the crate, and 3 seconds later I got more “UHHHH UHHHH UHHHHH!!!” because there was no room to push the truck around and it had already fallen off.

So I dragged a couple of old diaper boxes into the middle of the room to recreate his stand and play table. And he played at that thing all day long for the next 2 days. It started getting kind of gross because he was eating snacks there, too… and the boxes were getting a little, shall we say, GOOEY.

Enter the Ikea Lack table. I’ve never had a use or need for these when I’ve seen em at the store, but when it looked like we needed a more permanent solution they were right there in the Ikea warehouse ready to lend a hand:

Kid has been a happy camper ever since!

(P.S., he walks on his own now. Yeah. Stop growing, Phil.)