A "New" Favorite

One of the great gifts that my friends got me for my baby shower for Jaggar was the Graco Sweetpeace swing. It's like a cadillac for a baby. It plays sooo many different songs, nature sounds, the sound of the mother's heartbeat...You can even plug your ipod into it. It's great. My favorite feature of the swing is that you can plug it into the wall, rather than using the MANY C batteries it takes. Sadly, one day I tried to plug it in, and the cord wouldn't attach. The receiving end had come off of its track inside the base, and it was impossible to get out.

Last week, I really decided to figure out how to fix it. Jaggar never appreciated this swing as an infant, so it's basically brand new, and I wanted one of my expectant friends to be able to use it. So I found "replacement parts" on Graco's website. Unfortunately, the part that I needed was the motor, and it was $50. I emailed Graco about my problem asking if there was any way to fix it since it was such a silly problem. Before I heard a response from them, I called the next day, and the customer service girl flatly said, "No, there's no way to get it. You have to have a new motor." Oh. Thanks. Not.

So anyway, I wasn't about to pay $50 for it. I thought it was kind of ridiculous since it was a $200 swing in the first place, but whatever. Later that day, I checked my email and had a response to my initial email from a different girl saying they were sorry about my swing and had sent a replacement motor! Sweeet! So, we got that a few days later and turned the swing on for the first time in MONTHS. Well, Jaggar didn't appreciate the swing as an infant, but he certainly does now. It was hilarious. It must have been like a ride at the mall to him because he sat in it for 30 minutes...and then, the unthinkable happened, he went to SLEEP in it. Twice. In the same day. For over an hour. Thank you, sweet Jesus. Better late than never.

Look how big he's getting.

I took a shower, and my mom was downstairs with him. I came down, and this is what I saw. He had pulled the bear down, hugged it close to himself, and went to sleep.

Sweet, sweet