Nursery Item Number One

Jenn and I still have approximately 6 weeks before the little one arrives but yet I find myself in the nursery almost daily. This started about three weeks ago when Jenn finally made some baby furniture decisions. After weeks and weeks of "this looks good but this might look better", the decision was made. A few days later we had boxes and boxes sitting outside our front door. Now the great thing about having all of these boxes was that it gave me the chance to use my hands in a constructive manner, which I feel I rarely have the chance to do these days.

The first box that arrived was the crib (thanks Grandpa Rick) and I could not wait to bust into this box and get to work. To my surprise, Jenn wanted to help but I was not sure how that was going to work. Then I realized that her definition of helping was to sit on the floor and tell me what I needed to do. So the work on the crib began and it started out very well (meaning everything was in the box for a change). I was able to get the base put together, then I attached the first side wall. Next I installed the front and back side panels and then I inserted the spring frame. The last item to attach was the second side panel and I will be damned if I got to the last screw when Jenn noticed that I had the side panel on backwards. No big deal, a minor hiccup, so I took out the one screw I had in and flipped it around. Having that taken care of I put the last four screws in, excuse me, three out of the four. As I got to the last screw I could not get it to go in, so after several (several) minutes of moving each piece of wood around in order to get the last screw in, I caved and took the other three out. After removing the panel and inserting the uncooperative screw to make sure it did work without the panel, I got back on track. A few minutes later I had the first item up in the nursery, the crib. Here it is:


Only a dresser, six boxes of a shelving unit, a swing, a bouncer, and a pack 'n' play to go...