Boys and Their Toys

According to the Bible, God built the entire universe in less than seven days. By Kevin's count, five of them were spent assembling a baby bouncy thingy.

The Evenflo (Active Learning Center) Mega Excersaucer is cute, convenient, and easy to carry, and was obviously designed by a woman who hated her husband. It comes in 4,000 pieces, most of which aren't pictured in the instruction manual. The booklet is the size of War and Peace and written in four different languages, not one of them being English. After several hours of studying directions, he was finally able to complete step one. He opened the box. Laugh all you want, but that sucker had nearly eighteen layers of tape keeping it shut.

(Note: For Future dads out there-don't throw the box away. You'll need something to punch much later in the process, and Kevin found that cardboard is fairly soft on the fist).

The next step is to pull the seat cover over the intricate web of plastic legs and snap it into place. Simple enough, right?
I'd like see you delicately pull a banana peel over, say the Batmobile, and seal it shut. And doing it without Batman kicking your A$%!

So the next 45 minutes went something like this:

Pull.

Tug.

Curse.

Knock over beer.

Stub toe.

Curse again.

Ask Bentley to lick up the beer.

Tug.

Snap pieces into place. Chug beer. Throw the box down the stairs.

Moments later, he began assembling the the activity center. This part was clearly not as easy as the seat cover. It came with 4 fat squatty legs, some brackety things, a pile of screws, and some cover-ma-jigs. It did NOT come with a bottle of Advil!

After several hours of attaching, detaching, reattaching, kicking and smashing, I grabbed some beers and headed over to help my sweaty husband. He quickly guzzled another Miller Lite and "voila", the "d@m% bouncy thingy" was finished!
After conquering the task, he finally had a chance to sit down and enjoy the moment. He was SO proud, and I, for him. Bravo, honey!!
I think I caught a glimpse of a tear in his eye, no, not for sentimental reasons, but because I handed him another box.
"Here honey, now put this jumparoo together!"




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