origami & babies

So, the monkeys are back (Creedon & Winter, that is... I just call them monkeys cuz I love 'em so much) Bryan and I had some alone time, and basically did lots of baby prep stuff. Man, when you are married for awhile and have a few kids, "date night" becomes a whole new thing. We shopped almost all day monday and picked up all the putzy last minute stuff we needed for when our new little man comes...you know, shampoo, diapers, junk like that. Then we went to Outback for Slupper (lunch/supper). Other than that, we did some other shopping on the rest of the days, watched some movies at night, and spent all day Wednesday being busy. Thursday we went to get the kids.

NOW for the origami part... I had a brillant idea for a mobile over the crib. The crib is partially under a sloped ceiling, and mobiles don't really fit on the crib we have because it has REALLY fat rails. SO...I was gonna hang a mirror we had laying around on the sloped ceiling over the crib and suspend origami dinosaurs from it. Then I ran into several problems. #1 Mirrors can break and or fall and seriously injure babies. (So either I ditch the mirror or I go buy a safe one...like plasticy or something) #2 Origami dinosaurs are really difficult to make. I tried several and kept failing, so I asked my neighbor, Susie to come over and help me...She's pretty crafty and creative, and is a preschool teacher. Needless to say, it still didn't go so well. We found 1 we could make well, so we made like 4 or 5 of that model. I didn't give up though, and found a few others I could handle. So, now there are brontosaurus, stegasorous, and tyranasaraus. I think that will have to do for now! I'm thinking of ditching the whole mirror thing because then I have to go buy it, and I take unusual pride in making something for nothing. (It's a sickness) Oh, and one other thing. Origami dinosaurs look rather confusing and possibly disturbing from the underneath side. Oh, well, it will look cool for everyone else. Besides, it's not like the baby will know any difference.