As a follow up to this morning’s post, he still seems to like his mobile, even without the sound:
Archive for July, 2009
Silent Bear Parade
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009The End of the Bear Parade
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009Poor Mads. His Pack ‘n Play mobile just bit the dust.
For the past week, the music box inside the mobile has been losing notes and playing in the wrong key. This morning, in an attempt to salvage the mobile, I took out the metal keys in the music box. His bears still move, but they don’t sing. Instead, I play iTunes and hope he doesn’t mind. We’re testing it out as I type this.
I have to admit, if this works, it will be a relief. We’ve been listening to a constant stream of Rock A Bye Baby, which is not really a musical masterpiece even when it’s on key. Also, the lyrics are terrible.
Cross your fingers – I just peeked, and it looks like replacing Rock A Bye Baby with Portishead is acceptable for nap time. Now I’m going to eat breakfast and try to catch some sleep. Last night, Mads slept for a record 5 hours, but unfortunately, I was up for half of that. And, this morning, Mads decided to get up to say goodbye to Dad, so he had playtime at 6:30 and ate breakfast at 7:00.
Uh, oh it looks like Better than Ezra is not going over as well as Portishead. Excuse me, I’m off to wind the silent (but hopefully still entertaining) Bear Parade!
More for the photo-junkies: Here’s Mads’ in his Papasan for the last time – I thought the dangling bunny might be interesting now that he can swat at it, but unfortunately, Mads prefers manually bouncing (i.e. Dad) and doesn’t actually fit in the Papasan anymore.
Two Months Old
Saturday, July 11th, 2009I’m at home alone today with Maddox for, believe it or not, the first time since he was born – which just happens to be two months ago today.
It’s pretty amazing to compare where he is now to where he was a month ago (let alone two!). He’s interacting so much more, both with us, the world around him, and he even has begun to notice the cats. We’ve rediscovered his fondness for resembling a famous Mexican dish, the Baby Burrito
(Even when sleeping, he smiles as soon as you wrap the blanket around him – it’s really cool). He’s vocalizing a lot more as well, in the happy, baby sounds way. Even his cry is sounding “older.” We’re also able to start interacting with him on a more person-to-person level, like “reading” Goodnight Moon
He gets to see my family in just three weeks when we all take a trip up to Acadia National Park in Maine, and I’m sure they will be amazed as well to see how much he’s grown since they first saw him.
Below is a picture of one of his newest activities:
That would be staring at a piece of art we have on our wall called Happy Flight. The piece stars the luck dragon Falkor from the moving Neverending Story, and every morning he spends at least a half hour marveling at it. More and more he’s been laughing and smiling at it as well. I wasn’t sure why until I looked at the picture again
and realized: of course he loves it, it’s a picture of a big happy smiling face!
Reading the Classics
Friday, July 10th, 2009Maddox’s first reading of Goodnight Moon. Not exactly a book made for 8 week olds, but I love how he actually pays attention to it – even if it’s just because the light is reflecting off the pages and making them shiny.
New Toys 2
Friday, July 10th, 2009Holding our new toys:
