Ikea love

Mark is so hands-on. He can put anything together in a flash, and I love him for it. Today we went to Trader Joe's, and it was fantastic. We got paper bags full of organic stuff, and we're in love. With the store. And, well, with each other. But I'll save that for another post.

As promised, here's what we bought at Ikea:

The chair is called a Poang chair, and it bounces -- it doesn't rock or glide. We don't exactly have a baby yet, but we bought it for the future. I definitely know that babies like to be bounced, and this seat was just too cheap to pass up. It's comfy, it's cute, and we love it.

We also got a computer desk! We had to stuff it in our living room because our entire house only has two cable hookups. One in the living room & one in our bedroom. Well, there's no chance of a computer desk squeezing by our bed. It matches our tv stand and bookcase, and we love it -- especially because it doubles as another bookcase, which provides more storage (and room for more pictures of my nephews!).

Since the computer desk arrived, we had to move our bookcase to the other side of the room:

What's in store for tonight? Meatloaf and a potatoey-mushroom soupy-sour creamy-cheesy thing. Then Kindergarten Cop and Juno in bed on our laptop. We're trying to enjoy the "quiet time" without Piper. But it was definitely my husband who almost cried this afternoon when he was upstairs from missing Piper so much. We're, uh, sorta attached.