Rocking Good Times

It's 1:10 in the AM. I am sitting beside the Fella as he rocks Baby Z in the glider. Seemed like a good time to discuss the Glider, and the silent con-trov-esy (I am obsessed with saying it the way they do on the Masterpiece Theatre: "con-TROV-essy") of sorts the surrounded it's addition to the nursery.

Every night the last part of a successful BabyZ to bed routine relies on some smooth rockin' glide time in her nighttime blanket (**Blanket Theory to follow - remind me if I forget **). The glide time is really the nuts and bolts of the nighttime routine, it can either take 15 sweet-lovin' minutes or three hours of endurance marathon movement. Which sounds like how I got into this mess, if you catch my drift. Anyways, we freakin' love our glider. It's the Monte Luca Glider in Stone. My criteria for a glider was:

-soft arms to avoid me cracking someone's little braincase against wood and for my elderly elbows

-comfortable enough to fall comfortably asleep in

-could be used elsewhere in the house when the baby rooms become fun adventure castles of kid-driven wants and needs rather than soothing poop changing homages to all things I think are cute

-glide function that doesn't endanger fingers, appendages or puppy dog tails

-recline function is added bonus

Needless to say, the Monte Luca met all this criteria and more (you could ask whether the criteria came along before the discovery of the Monte Luca online, but that might bring up questions about how I sold the idea of this glider to the Fella, so let's avoid).

For the Con-TROV-essy:

It was $1500 with tax and delivery.

Egads. Lucky for us, we sold an old family vehicle for nearly the same price and it morphed the old ride into the new glide. Bada-bing.

Would we have shelled out the cash (or credit to lurk over our heads) if we didn't have the vehicle to sell? I like to think so but it would have been a lot harder to stomach.

In addition there was the debate about colour choice. The debate hasn't been entirely settled yet as the Fella felt that Charcoal would be the safer choice given all the projectile liquids that can come out a baby. I thought Stone was the only way to go.

We have the glider, we use it every day at least once. In the beginning I found it challenging to breastfeed in, but I have the hang out it now. And I have slept in it a bunch of times, sometimes reclined with a BabyZ on my chest. Othertimes I have have fallen asleep while gliding and singing lullabies and only known I was asleep because I went from singing a catchy but repetitive nursery rhyme to discussing the inventory of the Old Navy online baby wear catalogue. I know this because it was witnessed by the Fella, who took over for me and sent me to bed with a chuckle.

**Blanket Theory:

That you should always use/keep the same blanket in the same location for association reasons. Smells, textures excetera all come to be part of The Routine of that area. That's why it might have been as weird for you when you were a little kid to wake up on your bed with the couch/family room afghan on you, unless you were sick or something equally unusual was going on. Why is this scratchy yarn afghan of brown,red,yellow and green chevron stripes on my bed, my world is amiss! Or taking your bed pillow to the couch. Again, nap blankets in the nap areas, sleeping blankets in the sleeping areas.