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Ian's crib arrived yesterday, needing assembly. So today, the plan was to have Scott assemble it while I watched Drew. I had an inspiration and asked Drew if he wanted to watch. He said yes.
Ian will be in our room the first several months of his life, so we were assembling it there, and Drew and I sat on the bed. Very shortly, we realized the upper bolts were right at Drew's eye-level, so he got to use the allen wrench to help tighten them. And then he got to help spin nuts off bolts (they come together, spin apart, put in appropriate places and back together) and to hop down and help with some of the lower bolts.
The crib got put together about as fast as it would've otherwise (I was able to help steady parts, which sped it up, but Drew's participation did slow it down), and Drew was THRILLED.
Not bad at all.
Crib looks nice, and fits where I thought it would quite nicely. The mattress arrives next week. And then I get to walk around a crib for a couple months in the name of being prepared, since its occupant won't be here for a while yet. ;)
Ian will be in our room the first several months of his life, so we were assembling it there, and Drew and I sat on the bed. Very shortly, we realized the upper bolts were right at Drew's eye-level, so he got to use the allen wrench to help tighten them. And then he got to help spin nuts off bolts (they come together, spin apart, put in appropriate places and back together) and to hop down and help with some of the lower bolts.
The crib got put together about as fast as it would've otherwise (I was able to help steady parts, which sped it up, but Drew's participation did slow it down), and Drew was THRILLED.
Not bad at all.
Crib looks nice, and fits where I thought it would quite nicely. The mattress arrives next week. And then I get to walk around a crib for a couple months in the name of being prepared, since its occupant won't be here for a while yet. ;)
