There are so many ways to record your baby’s life and milestones. My mom kept a baby book for each of her children, and till this day, I treasure it! In fact, I love reading and comparing my development with my daughter’s development. My daughter started eating solid foods at 6 months, yet my mom had me eating steak and chicken at 4 months! Boy, have the times changed.
This is probably overkill (either because she’s my first child or I’m an over-achiever) but I have a baby book, a website (updated monthly), and several scrapbooks for my daughter. I can’t seem to stop recording her life! My husband asks every time I have filled yet another scrapbook, “So what are you going to do with these scrapbooks?”
Me: They’re mine! When she moves out and goes to college, I’m not giving these to her. I’m keeping them. These are MY memories.
Husband: So when are you going to stop scrapbooking and updating her website?
Me: When she’s graduated from high school. No. When she’s finished her doctorate. Wait! After she gets married. Uh… maybe when she has children. I don’t know. Don’t ask.
Do you do the same or am I just insane?
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I like to think that my daughter will cherish the blog I have of her. It captures every single thing I want to share with her now and will allow us to read about her development, to look at pictures, to watch videos and we can even share it with friends and family. Maybe technology will advance soo much that by the time she needs to capture her daughter’s childhood we will have completely different tools to do so.
I chose not to keep a baby journal. I took lots of photos of her and saved cards she received and little ephemera but I felt that I didn’t want to get too involved in documenting her life because that would take away from enjoying the moment. My daughter is 2 now and I haven’t regretted my choice. I feel like not making a document emphasizes the importance of the present.
I would like to think that when I have children I will do all these things, but If I have to base on how well I do these things right now (especially scrapbooking) or even 10 years ago when I had more to document, I am not getting off to a good start. Actually, I just went through all my scrapbooking stuff with my sister last night. At one point I looked at her and said “I guess I will have time to do this when I am pregnant and on bed rest one day!” We both laughed because we know that I am the sayer of all and the doer of little when it comes to these things.