Cribs on cars and more adventures

Last week was "Spring Break" for us, but since Heidi and I both only have class one night a week, It was basically just a few open evenings. Heidi had Monday and Wednesday all day off but spent the mornings with the girls she used to Nanny for. Shireen and Sara are so cute and "love the baby in her tummy". I still had to work, but we really enjoyed our evenings together.

Having last Wednesday off, Heidi had some friends over to paint the baby room. She got her idea from HG-TV and I adjusted it slightly by replacing the yellow stripes with a green. I think it looks better with the green. Here are a few photos of the process and the new crib after completion.




Kudos to Kristi McKenney and Christine Penuel for helping Heidi get this project started.

Speaking of the crib, we had quite an adventure with that as well. Heidi drove across the border to Vancouver to pick up a crib she found on craigslist.org and did fine on the trip out, but I had to go rescue her on the way back. The guy helped her load it up, and since it wouldn't fit inside my little hatchback, he strapped it to the top. Fine, I strap things to the top all the time! (see previous posts). However, he didn't strap it on very tight and also did it while she was in the car, so.... as she is driving along the freeway, slow and with flashers going, the crib is slowly inching it's way backwards and bobbing up and down. Heidi calls me and is totally freaked out that it is going to "fall off and hit somebody!" I drove out there thinking she was just driving poorly, but it really wasn't the case. Now she probably could have in most situations gotten out and tightened it up, but since he straped it down after she got in the car, all four legs of the baby bed were now blocking all 4 exits... except the hatchback.
Long story short, I got there, tightened it down, Heidi crawled out the back and O started to drive, found that is was just too unstable, pulled over again and took it apart on the side of the freeway to load inside. Here is the short video of part of that adventure.








Oh, 2 last things, Our new due date is officially August 5th according to the Dr today, and I got to feel our little girl for the first time on Saturday! It felt like air bubbles. It was a few kicks and/or punches. She is being quite active these past few days. Looking forward to meeting my little girl!


-T