Day 263 (freestyle crib)

After another dish-washing marathon, I built the crib that we got in America (for free). Not seeing any instructions in the slim folder of paperwork we got with the crib, I jumped in and just snapped the thing together. As I reached for the last piece (the board on which the mattress rests), I saw a nice large diagram showing how to assemble the crib. Ah. I looked it over and saw that I had installed two of the supports upside-down, so I popped them out, flipped them, and popped them back in. It was frighteningly easy, assembling this crib, but it seems perfectly sturdy, so I think we'll switch to it. (Not only is it a little prettier than our rehabilitated dumpster-rescue, the American crib is also made to convert to a toddler bed if you pop off one of the sides.)