Yesterday was a banner day… not only did we pick up Tracey from the airport (thus ending an 8-day Mommy draught that Ethan had endured), but we also stopped by Toys-R-Us and Ethan picked out a new bed.
Yes he picked one out for himself. “Yay yay yay! This is so exciting” he kept saying. I told Tracey, “Yeah, he’s excited, but he has no idea what we expect him to do with it [i.e. sleep by himself through the night]”
We called our local Wal-Mart and they did not have the bed, so we’d have to take it home with us from Huntington. Only problem? Dad had come with me to pick Tracey up from the airport, and the bed took up most of the space in the back, so Tracey ended up wedged between the door and the box.
We disassembled the crib and pulled out the 4 pieces to the Race Car Bed: front, back, left, right.
How hard could this be?
Well, there was a peg on the back designed to fit into a hole on the side. Problem? Yup. The hole was flush left and the peg was centered.
“Bring me my Exacto Knife!” I called to Tracey, who did so. She also picked up the phone and dialed 9-1- and waited for me to start bleeding all over the floor. To the surprise of just about everyone, I managed to increase the size of the hole without bodily injury to anyone. Tracey hung up the phone.
As soon as the bed was together Ethan immediately commenced jumping up and down on it “Wheee wheee wheee!”
However, about an hour later (approaching bedtime), he started “I don’t wanna sleep in my bed.”
He did, however, sleep there for most of the night, looking most-cute.
Our camera is being sent off for repairs - the shutter-release button is stuck in the “Down” position…. anyone else think it might just be exhausted? Fortunately we purchased the extended warranty when we bought the camera last March (you do remember the story of what happened to our old camera right?)
Camera or no, I promise you that you haven’t seen anything cuter than Ethan sound asleep on a Race Car Bed under his Baby Snoopy comforter.