Nursery update

[sethrak]

The crib is now assembled, with a minimum of swearing on davner's part, most of which was directed at our Kitten Minions, who insisted on trying to help and couldn't understand why Food Guy was throwing things at them and chasing them away.

I bought a mattress yesterday while Tom was at work, and a thing called a Cozy Crib Tent II to keep the cats out of the crib. Steph told me about the tent thing. I love the little fuzzballs, and I know that Mark's going to have a lot of exposure to cat hair and dander in just about every room in the house; but I'd really prefer not to have them rubbing their butts all over the surface my infant son sleeps on. Not to mention avoiding the enthusiastic clawing of the mattress, and attempts to gnaw on the musical light-up panda we plan to buy for the side of the crib, to keep Mark amused...Oh, and the charming way they have of insisting that the proper way to nap with an already sleeping human is to lie down on top of, and perpendicular to, said human's windpipe.... ^_^;; Forget the old wives' tales about cats stealing a baby's breath. Ours will love Mark to death.

Anyway. After many travails getting the mattress home - Honda Civics have absolutely NO cargo space to speak of, and I am never again trying to fit anything close to that size into Tohru-chan - I started getting the bedding set up. I am pleased to say the mattress, bedding, and crib all fit each other beautifully, and the crib bumper doesn't interfere with the raising and lowering of the crib rail.

Alas, the crib tent was less of a success.

Not because it doesn't fit. I didn't even get far enough to try that. There are two long narrow pockets running criss-cross along the top of the tent, for a pair of collapsible rods to be inserted in and hold the tent up. Just like most modern camping tents, right? According to the directions, there are two bright-blue stitched buttonholes on stiff woven tabs on the ends of the pockets at the front, and the rods are to be inserted there.

Only problem is, on the right hand pocket's tab, there's bright blue buttonhole stitching, but no hole. In fact, the entire tab seems to be sewn shut to itself, so I can't MacGyver an opening with a knife. Besides, the tab's made of sufficiently stiff material that a serrated kitchen knife had no discernable effect on it.

Eighty bucks for a useless item. >_< We'll take it back to Babies R Us in a couple days for an exchange - and this time I'm making them let me check the contents before we leave the store.

At least the crib looks adorable. ^_^ It's really starting to look like a baby lives here, or at least soon will.

Now if Mark would just stop playing merry hell with Mommy's digestive system.... I spent half an hour around midnight last night throwing up like crazy. I still feel quite icky.

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[thoth-of-nd.livejournal.com]

I seem to be having flashbacks to Jeff's "Some Assembly Required" fic. :)

And yes, take care of that stomach. ^^'