I love, love, love photos. I love flipping back through them a hundred times and remembering just how I felt, just what I thought and just where I was when I first took the picture.
The irony of it is, I really love baby books and they are pretty much the original scrapbook, are they not? I loved working on Randi's book and I am continuing to add in her birthdays and first times.
What I need to admit here is not that I am a half-scrap-booker, but that I have been a bit of an overachiever.
I have most of Emmett's book done as well. Now, I realize that he hasn't had a whole lot of firsts yet, but that's what is so great about the books I have. There are a bunch of pages to put their "history." After I had Randi, I picked hers up at Babies R Us partially because of the cute footprint option and partially because I just loved that you could take the pages out and either rearrange some, or even discard some if you weren't going to use them. There is a page for their family trees, info about their parents and then all of their firsts and such. There are also a few pages with pockets to put the id bracelets, doctor's notes or other memorabilia. I'm going to have to get some tiny envelopes to stick in there when it comes time for the first hair cut. The last page in each of their books is a letter from Mama to them. I haven't written Em's yet, but for me this is a great spot to write my prayer for their lives.I actually really love all the spots to put those knick-knacks. When Em reaches some sort of milestone, I have been writing it on my calendar to input later. Because, while I am currently ahead with this whole memory-keeping thing, I know it won't last. There are enough other projects screaming at me around the house at the moment that I'll be lucky to get one or two of them done.
Have you filled out your kids' baby books? What kind did you use and why did you (or didn't you) like them?
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This is one area I am a miserable failure. Well that comment sound like I am not often a miserable failure which is also not true. But NONe of my kids have baby books. I figure this way the third won't be like "How come my sister has a baby book and I don't even have a baby picture?" So really, I am brilliant.
That is definitely a form of genius and there is nothing wrong with that! :) Let's just say that I am inspiration to others so that baby book sales will continue. Or something like that.
horrible at it. horr.i.ble. Have Sam's 1st year done and, um, that's it. Wanna do mine? :)
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