New Additions to the Nursery

So we've added a few things to the nursery  (one of them being a baby) and I thought I would share...

I saw these neat little origami cranes on E's blog post about her little babe's nursery and thought they would make a sweet mobile. I finally had the time to make it and Drew Jones helped me hang it up! I just used the cranes (which you can get here on etsy), some fishing wire, a hot glue gun and some wooden dowels. Today I put Westley in his crib for the first time since hanging it and he literally looked up at the birds AND SMILED then looked at me, then back at the birds AND SMILED AGAIN. I told him that was the very best thank you I could have ever received.

We also put up these little bookshelves (that are actually ikea spice racks). I got the genius idea from ohdeeoh. We put them underneath the painting at kid level so that when he is big enough Westley can toddle on over, pick out a book to read and bring it over to Mama or Daddy in our chair.

Here is a view of the whole room so you can see the position of the book shelves and another view of the mobile.

I also changed up the shelf wall above the changing table. I would sit in the chair nursing Westley and look up and see that wall and it never looked quite right. So I dug up some picture frames we weren't using and put our beautiful Keels Photography photos in them. One of our Maternity Shoot and one from Westley's Newborn shoot. Much better I think.

Aaaaand lets have one more photo of sleeping Westley for good measure...

I think the mobile works.