I Suck At Setting Up A Bassinet

Last night was quite the eventful night. In fact, it was pretty much a family night as everything revolved around our family.

After work, Karen and I made a brief stop at Babies 'R Us to update our registry. To be more specific, we looked into car seats, baby carriages, and strollers. Eventually, we made a decision. Like I had mentioned to Karen, with the passing of our son (Braden), we are probably going to be those parents who will be constantly over-protecting our next child. The baby (who this week is named "Cabby" after Chinese cabbage) will most likely be wrapped up from head to toe in cushy padding... twice... to never get hurt.

From there (and after another brief stop at Staples to recycle some electronic waste... go environment!), we headed off to South Shore Hospital. For dinner, we were meeting up with Karen's parents at the hospital. Karen's mother was pretty comical. She seems quite giddy with excitement over Cabby and our baby registry and all of that. (And yes, the hospital food at South Shore Hospital is pretty good. I had a cheeseburger. Yum!)

Sure, the hospital cafetaria is no swanky dining establishment, but it was convenient. After all, the reason why we were meeting up with Karen's parents was because we were visiting some family members who happened to be in the hospital. Interestingly enough, the two separate family members were on the same floor, directly across from each other. It was interesting. Plus, the visit was apparently very quick as one patient was tired, and the other already had company. It was probably one of the quickest visits I have been to at a hospital... for two people.

Anyway, the patients are doing well. Following the hospital, Karen and I then headed off to see my favorite sister-in-law (Janine). Janine and my favorite brother-in-law (PJ) were giving us their bassinet and crib. So we stopped on by to pick up the items. Luckily for us, Janine's BFF (Gretchen) happened to be there because the bassinet and crib were in the attic... and PJ was not home yet.

Apparently, Janine is afraid to go up into the attic for hear of falling through the ceiling. I actually think they have a nice attic. Their attic is a lot more comfortable than our attic. Plus, there's more headroom. But I can see why she'd dislike going into the attic. The attic stairs are not exactly that secure.

Regardless, with the help of Janine and Gretchen, we were able to retrieve the bassinet and crib from the attic. And for anyone curious, I actually did not know what a bassinet looked like. I've heard the term before. And I've heard Karen and Janine always refer to it many times. And interestingly enough, I have actually seen one before. I just never made the association that the thing I have seen is called a "bassinet". To me, I always thought it was a little crib... but I guess bassinet sounded phonetically better than little crib.

Anyway, after hanging out at Janine and PJ's, Karen and I eventually headed home where I began to assemble the aforementioned bassinet and crib. And I must say, I suck at setting up a bassinet. Setting up the crib was no problem. A few screws here... a few screws there... and voila! Crib. The bassinet was a whole different story.

The bassinet actually did not require any screws, which is the sad part. Instead, it assembles with buttons and fitted pieces. Assembling the base was the easy part. It was actually the bassinet portion itself that took forever. Karen and I must have spent a good amount of time trying to figure out how the skirt attached to the basket. Not even the directions could help us out.

Eventually, we did figure it out. Apparently, the bottom board had to actually sit into the skirt piece before snapping up all of the buttons. The directions never mentioned anything about that. The whole assembly of the bassinet definitely took us longer than it should have. But at least it's done.

So now at least we have some baby furniture in Cabby's/My BFF's (Kerry) room.