Since the shower, we finally have baby stuff. While the stuff is great, it's more about the fact that we can finally take action based on having the stuff that's important. For example, I spent my birthday putting together the "My Little Snug-a-Bunny Cradle n Swing" for the kiddo. The Snug-a-Bunny had a LOT of pieces, directions in three languages, and that frustrating thing that happens when it tells you to put things together but secretly the pieces have already BEEN put together causing you to waste time searching for the "missing" piece. Throw in the fact that the core mechanism designed to rock my fragile baby to sleep looks, in isolation, disturbingly like an outboard motor and you'd think I would be incredibly stressed.
The end result is that I'm more optimistic about this kid entering our lives. Now she will have multiple places to sleep, to play, and to crap which will buy us time while we run ourselves ragged. And really, isn't that what all these things are actually about?
Congratulations! You had your rite-of-passage swing building experience early! We waited until you were four to build a real swing set including putting it together wrong the first time, taking it apart, figuring out what we did wrong, and building it correctly the second time around. I would tell people you haven't really become a parent until you've built a swing set. I worried you wouldn't have that experience with your urban living and all, but looks like you got it anyway, although on a miniature scale.
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