The Making of a Mobile

I never found a mobile I liked at any of the stores. They all seemed cheesy and over-priced to me. I started looking on etsy.com to see if there was one on there. I found some that were definitely not cheesy, but they were even more over-priced.

I found this one on etsy that I really liked and thought I could replicate.
Since Luke's nursery is alphabet and we already made the other book art, I thought it fit nicely in our theme.

So.. I took Luke on a quick trip to Half Price Books and purchased Curious George for $2.83.

I used the exacto knife to cut out all of the pages. Before doing this, Trey warned me to be careful since an exacto knife was the number one cause of their work place accidents. I told him I wasn't one of his employees.

The hot glue gun worked nicely to form the pages into tear drops. I then glued them together inside the cover.

Here's the view Luke will get from his crib. I think he'll like it.

The final product hung above his crib.

Sorry for the low light picture. I had to snap it during nap time.


It's not quite as pretty as the one on etsy, but I think I did a pretty good job. I mean, I did get it done over three naptimes and a shopping trip with a two month old. And I didn't pay $72.

Alice, TX, America

A recap of Luke's first trip to Alice.

Chatting with Grandma and Grandpa.

Chewing on Grandpa's finger.

Spending time with Great Grandma.

Rocking to sleep with Great Grandpa.

Luke loved being in Alice!
Maybe because there was always someone available to rock him to sleep and then let him sleep on them. He keeps asking to go back!

Laughs Abound

Celebrate!

There were many things to celebrate this past week and weekend:

1. Grandma Jackson came to visit. She hadn't seen him since he was born, so they had some catching up to do!

We loved having her here! It was very fun to have grandma around :) She even was nice enough to babysit one night so I could go to dinner with friends! Grandma Jackson, come back anytime!

2. My dad turned 60! My mom threw him a party and it was great fun!He had a good time with a lifetime of good friends and family :)



3. Luke can now move himself a quarter turn in his crib and roll onto his side. He's a quick learner!


3. The Mavericks won the NBA Championship!! Big D is super excited and since I'm home, I've watched a lot of the coverage. It's been very fun and somewhat unbelievable!

Just for fun:
His face says, "Mom, I look like a girl in these pajamas."

Two Months

Luke is two months old! He's such a big boy!

His many faces:
Inquisitive

Skeptical

Chillin'

Happy

Two month milestones:

• Weighs 11 lbs. 11 ozs.- 50th percentile
• Height is 22 1/2 inches- 25th percentile
• Head circumference is 38 cm.- 15th percentile
• Smiles all of the time!
• Coos and laughs at us regularly. It's so cute, and it's definitely more fun :) We spend a lot of time "talking" to each other. I feel like I'm learning more of his personality now which is good!
  
• Looks at things around him. He'll stare right at you. He's just found his toys to looks at and himself in his mirror. Today, he looked at another baby for the first time.
• He's still wearing 0-3 month outfits, but we've put him in 3-6 month stuff also.
  
• He wears size 1 diapers still. We've also transitioned over to the cloth diapers. I'm a hybrid user of the cloth. I still put him in disposables at night and for times of convenience. But more on that in another post- I'm working on a big cloth diaper update.
• We're still working on tummy time. He's realized he doesn't like it too much, but he's got to build strength so we do it, just not for very long.
• He has really good head control and very soon he'll regularly be holding it up with no problem.
  
• He sleeps in at least five hour intervals for the most part. He's been up at different times, but it's usually only once a night which is nice. Twice he's slept 8 hours! Those are awesome nights, but I can't complain about 5 hour stretches.
  
• We're definitely settling in more now and starting to get into some resemblance of a routine. I at least feel like I can get things done during the day. I definitely feel like I'm coming out of the newborn haze, as I like to call it. I think we're finally out of survival and into living! I like to try to get out of the house at least once a day and sometimes twice. I still take a little 30 minute nap during the day usually, but I definitely survive if I don't have it. A couple of weeks ago, I felt like a walking zombie if I didn't get a good nap in, and they were usually an hour at the minimum.

All in all, life is good! It can be a little rough at times. I still get frustrated about different things and being at home is definitely still coming together, but all in all, things are going really well.