Builders Christian and Julia

I mentioned in a previous post that we bought two dressers from IKEA. We ended up deciding to put the tall one in Julia's room and the wide one in Christian's room (we got our dresser from another store in the same trip and Ethan's should arrive this Thursday, so that just leaves a dresser for Agnes and Elliott).

We put Julia's dresser together first. It was fun to work with her on it, but she ended up getting bored with it after a little bit. I think it ended up taking about 3-4 hours to finish it completely. A few days later we were able to put Christian's together. He was super excited about it from start to finish. He knew exactly how to read the instructions and how to follow them. When we did something wrong, he would look back at the pictures and figure out how to correct it. He kept saying it was just like legos and that he was having so much fun. I let him take the lead on the whole thing and I mainly just tightened the screws and made sure things were hammered in tightly. It was a lot of fun for me to do it with him and it made me wish we had a few more to put together like that.