A dose of cuteness

The staring contest:


Maggie being "wrassled up":


Lucy and Tucker having a chat in the backyard:

Preparations

We've slowly but surely been getting things ready for our little turkey. A few weeks ago, we picked up the furniture and assembled the crib. And just this past weekend, we finished painting the room. The furniture was packed amazingly well, despite the puzzling size of the box containing these parts:

And the box that contained nothing. Even Lucy was perplexed. She thought, "If they had the extra room, they could have at least thrown in a few milkbones."

Maggie was either supervising from the hallway, or just overwhelmed with the mountain of packing material that had taken over the house. Seriously, 2 trash/recycling days have passed since then and we still haven't gotten rid of all the cardboard and styrofoam.

While the unwrapping and cutting down of the boxes seemed to take forever, we must have been very fortunate to obtain an easy-to-assembly crib. Having always heard horror stories of how hard and complicated crib assembly could be, we were prepared for the worst. However, it seemed like we went straight from this:

To this in no time at all:

Okay, maybe there was a little of this thrown in for good measure:

But overall, it was pretty easy-cheesy. More pictures of the nursery progress to come...