Posts Tagged ‘crib’

Cribbing it Up

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

While our goal is to get Aviva to sleep in the co-sleeper in our bedroom, we are also trying to put her to nap in the crib in the nursery as well – get her used to sleeping in both, if you will. Of course, so far, much of her sleeping is in our arms or some other form of hold, but she has made use of both. Often, she awakes from a nap quite fussy/hungry, but occasionally, as she awakes, she has a really cute quiet-alert time period. We usually (it’s funny to say “usually” when it has just been two weeks) go and pick her up right away, so we can interact with her when she’s in this state, but this afternoon, we decided to see what she would do when left on her own. She seems quite interested in figuring out her limbs, if you ask me. Note: it’s quiet for the first few seconds, but then one of Aviva’s favorite CDs comes on in the background – it’s a CD of Jazz/Swing arrangements of famous nursery rhymes.

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Construction of a Crib

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

As I mentioned previously, we’ve started the process of getting our nursery together. Last week, the dressers and crib got delivered. While the dressers were pre-assembled, the crib required assembly. As always, the idea of leaving the big box just sitting there didn’t match our mental makeup, so we tackled the job over this weekend – turns out, this was one of the easier furniture construction jobs to do – the parts and steps made perfect sense (thankfully, given how critical it is to have the crib constructed well). Moving all of the carboard pieces into the recycling bin was actually a harder task!

Having the crib put together is yet another of the steps that caused us to realize how soon the baby will be born – Joelle is now just over 30 weeks (obligatory belly shot on the right), leaving (estimated) only 10 weeks left to go. Unbelievable how fast time is flying!

(Note: I am trying yet a different format for posting pictures – so click on any of the images on the right to see pictures in full detail).