Cheerios is My New Swing

So every parent has that go to toy when you first bring a baby home.  It’s a swing or a bouncie or something that holds the child that they will tolerate and dare I say like so that you can do something anything that doesn’t involve holding them 24 hours a day.
The problem is that at some point our children become more aware and those go to toys in my case the swing don’t work quite as well as they used to.  Then they barely work, then they sorta work, then they are the cause of the problem and chances are once your go to toy becomes the problem your kid has probably grown out of it anyway.
So once your go to toy becomes the source of your problems and your kid is too self aware to sit in one thing for more than 20 minutes anyway.  You learn to do things in 15 – 20 minute intervals sometimes it literally takes me three days to do the laundry.  My husband will tell you its because I suck at laundry.  That’s not entirely false but at least part of it has to do with the fact that the kid will only be happy in one place for a short amount of time.  So you rotate, swing to bouncie, to play mat to swing and back again.
Once your child however begins to eat real food, a meal can take anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes.  30 minutes of little human containment and contentment is a godsend.  So when I put my child in his highchair I give him cheerios.  He loves them … I can’t even tell you.  He loves the box, he loves the sound the box makes he loves picking them up himself and he can sit there with 30 cheerios and be fully entertained for at least 20 minutes.  Which 20 minutes when your child is 9 months old and crawling around is incredible.
SO Cheerios are my new swing,