Snack time for multiples

MamaBrightSide

Hi!
I have 14 month old twins and we do three regular meals a day plus two "snack times". My children love to eat! My question is, with your multiples, do you put them in their high chairs for every snack? High chairs are just so involved and snack time can be so messy, and as y'all know, cleaning up two babies or more is quite a chore. When I try to do dry snacks in the living room even those are messy, like gold fish, the kids smear them into the carpet because they dissolve in their hands. Any advice?
Thanks!

Ylvelill

Don't have my twins yet but have several kids at my house often. My rule is all food stays in kitchen or dining room as well as juice.

I do not care for food on my carpet or furniture but even more so I don't care for having to "yell" at the kids every two seconds to be careful

They make a mess, we clean it up, everyone is happy.

MamaBrightSide

I don't mind the mess, but I am pregnant with twins again and it is just a lot of work to feed, clean up and change clothes etc lol. I want thinking about those shirt bibs....

Ylvelill

I am a fan of kids wearing a smock during feeding frenzy while they are still learning

Jamie718

I let my ds eat in the living room when he was little because he freaked out about being in the highchair.  We have him eat at the table now for anything messy and let him have things like crackers in the living room.  I think with the twins I'll be more strict about keeping them in the kitchen.  Our living room/dining room/kitchen are all one big open room so it's not like they're really separated from everyone else or anything.

lc&jw

Ylvelill said:

Don't have my twins yet but have several kids at my house often. My rule is all food stays in kitchen or dining room as well as juice. I do not care for food on my carpet or furniture but even more so I don't care for having to "yell" at the kids every two seconds to be careful They make a mess, we clean it up, everyone is happy.

This is pretty much how I handle things with DD and DS who are 13 months. It was really overwhelming to deal with so many high chair meals/clean up when we first added snacks, but you quickly get the routine down and it doesn't take as long anymore. The kids have also gotten slightly faster at eating.

I much prefer to clean the high chairs and the floor around them multiple times throughout the day than to be trying to get food out of my living room furniture and carpet.

kgs0505

Dry stuff and water is allowed in the family room.  I use those munchkin snack trap things for when they are little so they can't grab a whole handful.  My nearly 3yo is relegated to the kitchen for all things wet, sticky, or messy, plus juice or milk since he has managed to defeat every cup I have ever bought.

I don;t get hung up on the mess.  It's too hard.  We just run the vacuum once in awhile, like when the floor gets crunchy.

Currently, the girls are still being fed solely in the highchairs (2 solids meals a day), as they aren't quite coordinated enough to have snacks elsewhere, but it's coming...soon!