I was given a beautiful baby book when JDaniel was born as a gift. I put it on a shelf to work on later. Well, he is now two and three months and it is still empty.
There are slips of paper with his weight and height from doctor’s visits that could be recorded. Pictures are on the computer that could be printed out. Lists of gifts I was given at various showers. I just don’t seem motivated to get started.
Recently I unearthed my baby book. My mom meticulously recorded every detail of my babyhood in it. If I am honest I haven’t looked at that book in years. The birthday cards from when I was one just don’t hold meaning for me. I don’t know most of the people listed at gift givers at the baby shower that was thrown for me.
Lately I find myself wondering it my little guy will read through his baby book in the future if I can get my act together. I have a photo album of his first year he loves to flip through and have me tell him about.
I guess if it is weighing on my mind I should work on it. Some day his future wife might want to see it. She may not understand how an only child didn’t end up with one. I don’t want her to think I didn’t care.
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My mom never did a baby book for me, and I never thought anything of it. But when I graduated from high school, she made a huge scrapbook of all kinds of thinks I had done and made all through school, and that is something I dearly treasure. I guess everyone is different. You will know the right thing to do, no one knows better than mommy 🙂
I have the same thing for Bella!! TONS of stuff for it but not actually in it!
Thanks for stopping by my blog. My second son’s baby book is basically a folder with all the height weight, firsts info on it, but I do blog everything so there is still a record. I’m with you on the cards. My mom saved them all and I could care less about them. (I still save my kids’ cards,though, in the yearly birthday album I make for them. I never save any I get for myself, though. )One thing I like about my husband’s baby book is comparing my kids weights, first steps etc. with his. Anything else is …eh.
I have 3 of those books but I just used journals, I’ve stapled some hospital bracelets and wrote down some heights and weights here and there. The big trouble I got into though? I have a book for T and M but not one for A mr Middle! And Mr Middle knows. I backed dated some stuff, and combined T and As togther but..oops!
i was totally into scrapbooking after my first son was born, then was over it and my poor second child barely has any pictures at all of his first year of life. oh well. 🙂
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I think that it is so special to make a book for your son but it does not need to be of everything that has happened since birth. Just document those important to things and it will be the most special book he will ever own!
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My mother kept baby books for each one of her 5 kids. But I dont know why. They were each only about %5 complete. I have a clip of hair in mine with a few baby shower cards.
You are not alone. Mine will be 4 in September and not one baby book filled out. I don’t even have the slips of the weight and height, so you are more on top of it than I was. I actually just got rid of 4 empty books. Sad but had to face reality. I don’t remember half of the stuff 🙂 Maybe the kiddos will look back at our blogs.
I did a decent job with my boys’ baby books, but right now, I don’t even know where Baby Girl’s book is. Isn’t that awful?! I’m going to look today!!
Totally not alone….I don’t even have a baby book for the youngest two LOL! The oldest two have so many things written in them, and middle ones have a few words here and there and the youngest two, well….
At least you kept things like the weight and stuff, it shouldn’t be to hard to go back through and fill in the blanks.
Just remember though – you do have this blog filled with wonderful memories of things you have done. You can always get a book of it printed up as a keepsake.
Hope you are enjoying your weekend so far =)
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I haven’t written in my daughter’s baby book either. Glad I’m not alone.
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I am the baby of the family so my book is near empty. My oldest daughter’s book, is partially filled. I have almost the first year of her life in scrapbook. Beyond that I have about 12 years of pictures print and computer that simply sit. Whether we have one, three or five we are busy people. My sister just recently made scrapbooks for her kids. And they are all adults. It’s never too late.
I am trying to get the motivation to do a pregnancy scrabook. It’s something I really wanted to do, and thought I should do before this baby arrives (since I hear I’ll have a lot less time on my hands when she gets here, lol). I’m now 27 weeks and haven’t even started. Maybe tomorrow. Good luck with the baby book, and happy SITS Saturday!
I have about 10 pages in my older sons book and a whole box of scrapbooking material. Since then I have discovered the joy of digital photo books. I am doing a family one each year for both children. I include information like their favorite things and hobbies. Much cheapter and quicker.
I loved the baby book my mom made for me! I wa allowed to “read” through it, and it gave my mom a chance to tell me about the people mentioned. Even though it was more than four decades ago that the book was put together, I still feel a connection to those people who loved my parents, and shared a part of their lives, whose pictures and m=names are listed in my book. It is a real treasure, and I value it even more, now that both my parents are gone.
I was given and started a baby book for my daughter (7) but didn’t get very far with it, so it is totally incomplete. I was not given one for my son (3) and so he doesn’t have one. I think all in all, photo albums count for more. There more fun anyway.
glad to see i am not the only one that has not worked on it… i do have a few pages done…
but it is kinda sad…………..