Where's Waldo?

Can you find Liam in this picture? This reminded me of the Where's Waldo books so I had to take a picture. It also kind of looks like he's doing a blue-screen scene for a movie where he falls off of something.

I can't tell if Liam is particularly cranky at bed time, or whether we just have less patience then because we want to sleep. I think its a little of both actually. Somehow, bed time has become a multi-hour ordeal involving every soothing tactic we know about and lots of good old-fashioned trickery (don't worry Liam, we won't put you in the bassinet, you can just sleep here in that awkward position in my arms... and then the slow sneaking over to the bassinet while trying not to wake him up).

We watched an episode of Supper Nanny tonight. As difficult as this has been sometimes with Liam, at least we don't also have to deal with a house full of kids who are out of control. Its the kind of show that tends to make you feel better about your own situation.

Furnishing the Nursery

After carefully painting the nursery to match our Pottery Barn Kids "Hey Diddle Diddle" rug, we discovered that the awful stench issuing from the rug was not going away. At first, we thought it was just "new rug smell" and let it air out by opening the window and door to the room. We also vacuumed it a few times. After a month, it still stank just as badly, so we bought a fancy new Dyson vacuum cleaner and I vacuumed it four times, filling the Dyson canister all four times with fuzz. We continued to let it "air out" for another week, all to no avail. Some internet research (why didn't we do that to begin with?) found that this style of rug had some kind of manufacturing defect that caused the smell (theories ranged from insecticide to glue). So now we had to find a rug to match the paint because I certainly didn't want to repaint that room! We ended up finding another rug at Pottery Barn Kids made by a different manufacturer with no smell and that matched the paint well.

Then we just had to wait for the furniture. We picked out and ordered the furniture in mid December but, (due to being hand-carried from Taiwan no doubt) it would not arrive until February 29th! When Leap Day rolled around, the Buy Buy Baby crew brought the furniture out and assembled it for us. Once it was set up, we both felt that this was getting more "real." We could now visualize a baby in the crib, changing him on the table, and pacing up and down the room trying to get him to stop crying :)

We're getting really close now and we're excited to get started.