Our steps towards parenthood continued with the latest milestone – putting together the crib.

The “crate” (as my aunt called it when she gifted it to us) got delivered by FedEx a few days ago, and it took me one evening to put it together. My fair and circumferentially challenged wife was no help in the process, leaving me to do all the heavy lifting and deft construction work on my own. But she did have fun snapping pictures of me (a little too much fun, if you ask me).

It actually wasn’t too difficult. The instructions were good, but not great. While they did a great job of labeling the parts (especially the screws, which is something that isn’t usual), they didn’t really label the wooden supports, which led me to connect it the wrong way round once.

Thankfully, I managed to get past those mistakes. I did have to do my fair share of balancing acts to get it put together. At one point I had a small pyramid made from the Styrofoam packaging to balance the mattress support on while I tried to get it into the right slots. I wouldn’t recommend the project to anyone that is not fairly dexterous. And I only stubbed my toes once

Now to figure out a place for it in our room.