Learning curve

As I mentioned in a previous post, Kim and Brett have been kind enough to give us many many useful baby/child related items. I'd list them for you, but I really have no clue what most of them are or do. But we totally appreciate every single one of them!

Kim dropped off a car-load (seriously) of things last weekend. So I thought I should begin to familiarize with these items so I don't find myself overwhelmed with a newborn and the related apparatus.

I started off with the bottle warmer. Took it out of the box, read the directions, seemed simple enough. A once cold bottle of liquid is then made warm. Got it. Makes total sense.

Then, feeling confident, I moved on to the sterilizer. Confidence immediately dashed. First off it has more parts than the aforementioned warmer. It's okay, I can handle this. Once again I unfold the instructions which by the way are much longer than the warmer. I'm getting nervous. I put the parts together as instructed. That's it. End of instructions. Well, how does this sterilize anything?? Where is the 'on' button? Where is the plug? I kid you not, I looked this thing over for five minutes, flipped it up-side-down, poked buttons that didn't exist, turned and re-turned the lid and could not, for the life of me figure out how to turn it on. (My fantastic husband was playing on his xBox during all of this, and although I was tempted to fetch him and get him to figure it out, I thought NO I can do this!) So then, after many (many) minutes of pulling out my hair trying to turn this damn thing on, I decide to check the box. Well sure enough, right there in black and white "MICROWAVE STERILIZER". Microwave... riiiiiiiight.

This kid is fucked.