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Have kids -- start building quick, cheap, indestructible stuff. Pine and MDF
became my working materials of choice. I also started using flush-trim roundover
bits on everything.
As Benton started to get old enough to need a table to work on, I hacked
these together. Julie tackled the painting, which was definitely the more
challenging chore of the project.
This
is a detail of the construction before it was painted. The MDF was glued into a
rabbet in the pine frame. 
The
one design modification I made when I made a second table/chair set for Julie's
cousin was that I changed the dado-like groove (intended to catch
spills/pencils/crayons before they rolled off) to be a rounded groove. This
change (hopefully) made it easier to clean -- the squared-off groove wound up
catching sticky stuff and other junk that was tough to clean out.
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