i’ve put together more toddler toys in the past few weeks than i have in my entire lifetime. my latest adventure in following obscure instructions came when it was time to put together little odin’s new nature’s touch baby papasan cradle swing.

rather than putting him to sleep, it seems to do a good job of keeping him wide, wide awake; whenever he’s sitting in it, a look of bewilderment comes across his face as soon as you turn the swing on. maybe it just takes time. i guess after months of laying on a bed that didn’t move very much in the nicu, it’s probably a little disconcerting to sit in something that sways to and fro.

on the off chance that you saw me laughing to myself while i was standing at the deli counter at the local grocery store, it was because i was wondering the odds could be that i’d walk up to the deli counter today – the first day that i’ve gone grocery shopping in months – and grab the E4 queue ticket?

for the new visitors who might be scratching their heads at why i would photograph a deli counter ticket, it might help to know that E4 is little odin’s other nickname ( see, eric c. snowdeal iv is E4, eric c snowdeal iii is E3 and so on and so forth ).

at night, little odin sleeps in a co-sleeper that’s attached to our bed, so he’s not too far away if the home monitor goes off. but during the day, we’ve been experimenting with putting him in his crib in the nursery.

it’s hard to imagine that someday he won’t be on a home monitor and we won’t ahve to constantly be vigilent about whether or not he’s stopped breathing.