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It seems that Luke may be moving into a bed a little bit sooner than we had thought.
He's been in the crib that we originally bought for Simon, four and a half years ago. We bought it at a department store(though at least Sears instead of Zellers), instead of one of those pricy carved-wood ones you find at the dedicated baby-furniture stores. It was assemble-it-yourself, too, but without too many moving parts.
The worst part about it, at first, was simply the fact that it would not fit through doors. We had to assemble it inside the room, and then if we wanted to move it out we had to disassemble it, at least to the point of taking the sides down.
I should say that basically what it consists of is head- and foot-boards, attached to the board the mattress sits on, and then barred sides that slide up and down. You have to pull in little triggers at either side to move it, and then it can only lodge in one of two holes.
I don't remember at what age Simon moved into a bed, but at that point we had to disassemble the crib and move it into the other bedroom. Maybe that was where the problems started. All I know is that the sides started to fall apart sometime after the move.
The bars are just slats held in by pegs into the top and bottom of the side rails. (I know I'm bad with my terminology here, but then I never claimed to be a carpenter, or handy in any way.) And at some point, the lower rail has started to sag down a little bit, so the bars get a little loose, either at the top or the bottom. At one point we turned the crib around because the side we were using was getting bad unless we kept it in the down position...which of course is the position designed for you taking the child out of the crib, not keeping it in. So we turned that side against the wall.
Now, though, many of the pegs on one side have slipped out entirely. We're not sure what kept the bottom rail up in the first place, but at the moment it seems to be "nothing". It's possible to try to get the pegs back in the holes, but there's at least a dozen of them, and it's impossible to get them all in at once, in its current position. It will need to be disassembled, basically.
So this weekend, sometime when we're not frantically cleaning the house for the Cult of Pain meeting, or hosting same, we have to try to find a bed suitable for an almost-two-year-old. And manage to switch it for the crib sometime between its arrival home and Luke's next sleep period. Then maybe we can disassemble the crib...somewhere...and try to fix it, or something.
I hope Luke's ready for a bed, because that's what he's getting. Even though it's only been a few days since we weaned him off his soother at bedtime. But the crib will not hold together much longer. It can't be very safe to have him in it as it is, but we have no other alternative.
I hate things that fall apart. Don't even get me started about the stupid blind in Simon's room.
He's been in the crib that we originally bought for Simon, four and a half years ago. We bought it at a department store(though at least Sears instead of Zellers), instead of one of those pricy carved-wood ones you find at the dedicated baby-furniture stores. It was assemble-it-yourself, too, but without too many moving parts.
The worst part about it, at first, was simply the fact that it would not fit through doors. We had to assemble it inside the room, and then if we wanted to move it out we had to disassemble it, at least to the point of taking the sides down.
I should say that basically what it consists of is head- and foot-boards, attached to the board the mattress sits on, and then barred sides that slide up and down. You have to pull in little triggers at either side to move it, and then it can only lodge in one of two holes.
I don't remember at what age Simon moved into a bed, but at that point we had to disassemble the crib and move it into the other bedroom. Maybe that was where the problems started. All I know is that the sides started to fall apart sometime after the move.
The bars are just slats held in by pegs into the top and bottom of the side rails. (I know I'm bad with my terminology here, but then I never claimed to be a carpenter, or handy in any way.) And at some point, the lower rail has started to sag down a little bit, so the bars get a little loose, either at the top or the bottom. At one point we turned the crib around because the side we were using was getting bad unless we kept it in the down position...which of course is the position designed for you taking the child out of the crib, not keeping it in. So we turned that side against the wall.
Now, though, many of the pegs on one side have slipped out entirely. We're not sure what kept the bottom rail up in the first place, but at the moment it seems to be "nothing". It's possible to try to get the pegs back in the holes, but there's at least a dozen of them, and it's impossible to get them all in at once, in its current position. It will need to be disassembled, basically.
So this weekend, sometime when we're not frantically cleaning the house for the Cult of Pain meeting, or hosting same, we have to try to find a bed suitable for an almost-two-year-old. And manage to switch it for the crib sometime between its arrival home and Luke's next sleep period. Then maybe we can disassemble the crib...somewhere...and try to fix it, or something.
I hope Luke's ready for a bed, because that's what he's getting. Even though it's only been a few days since we weaned him off his soother at bedtime. But the crib will not hold together much longer. It can't be very safe to have him in it as it is, but we have no other alternative.
I hate things that fall apart. Don't even get me started about the stupid blind in Simon's room.
