Crib Assembly

Today we made a lot of progress towards getting the nursery ready.

Putting together the cribs turned out to be more of a labor of love than I had anticipated. There didn’t seem to be a large volume of pieces and there were only 6 steps to the directions, but that was deceiving. The worded portion of the directions was pretty vague, saying things like “step 4: attach the side rail to the left and the right ends.” There was a diagram under each step showing what pieces needed to come together to make that happen. Sounds simple enough, until I realized that the pictures of the pieces (particularly the placement of the holes) didn’t match up to the pieces I had in front of me. After lots of trial and error I eventually got them all to fit together, only to realize that I still had a bag of 30 screw locks left over when I finished. There was no mention of these in the directions (not even in the listing of parts), but there was a small piece of paper in the bag that said “You MUST use a screw lock with each screw.” So annoying! I must have done the equivalent of putting the crib together 6 times by the time I was finished.

By the time I finished the first one I finally had it all figured out – the second one went MUCH more smoothly (which was definitely a good thing because I was on the verge of a temper tantrum at that point!)

Although we’ve known for a couple months now that we’re having twins, it was quite the reality check when I stepped back and saw 2 cribs in the nursery and immediately pictured a screaming baby in each one. We’re looking forward to having the unique experiences that having twins will surely bring, but wow….2 babies…at the same time…