May 02, 2009
DIY Baby Mobile
My original plan was to knit several striped fish or other small, easy-to-knit animals and make them into a mobile for Remi. Since knitting while nursing really isn't feasible (though I've tried), I only made it through two somewhat-basic knit fish before fizzling out.
They sat on the bookshelf for a while before I realized I had to get a mobile of some sort up before Remi grew out of the mobile stage. It took me another couple of weeks (in my disorganized Mom-state) to get an embroidery hoop, but once I did I threw this together pretty quickly with ribbon, a glue-gun, and a mug hook for the ceiling (close-up photo here).
I think it's quite cute and I plan to change it up with more fish or something else to keep Remi interested. I love it when he looks at it and smiles. I'm not sure that non-DIY friends think it's terribly exciting (no noise or battery-operated movement = bad parenting), but Remi's got to get used to hand-crafted Mom craziness at some point.
I can also move it out of his reach as he gets older, which can't be said for the store-bought variety. I admit that I'll pick up this, too, since he went bonkers for it at a friends house today, but I may just use the pieces to augment the DIY version. (I imagine much of my life in the coming years will involve caving to peer pressure and getting store-bought items to make a certain someone smile.)
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May 01, 2009
Remikins
I wonder if this photo gives us a glimpse of what Remi will look like when he's older:
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