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dancerjodiI don't have a lot of photos from my baby shower, but I've put the ones I collected here http://www.flickr.com/photos/dancerjodi/sets/72157628387135395/with/6507701505/ .
My sister's invitations were indeed rockin'! She had ordered some matching notecards for folks to leave us parenting advice, and there were such sweet notes from people in the cards that accompanied gifts. In thinking of how to save these things for future looks (and to share with our daughter when she's older and can appreciate them), I went very low tech. We had some time to kill before a class on Monday night, and I picked up an acid-free photo album in Michael's in Burlington (the kind with a big solid sticky page to fit odd-shaped items).
I had stayed home from Tap class on Tuesday because of this darned cold that I'm fighting, and spent some time sticking things from the shower into the book: invitation, advice cards, greeting cards. The good thing about this 'old fashioned' and low-tech approach is that the pages are removeable, and that there are many left to fill. I thought it may be a good place to document our life before baby: the prep that went into it, the ultrasound pictures and that kind of thing. The album is just a plain white leather one with some gold gilding on it. I'll have to check out the scrapbooking stuff to see if I can find some kind of label holder to stick on the spine and front to note what's actually in the book. But I digress.
I have ultrasound pictures to go through, sort by date and put in there. This morning (since I woke up an hour early by accident - doh) I had some time before I left for work to review things tagged as "baby" in my livejournal, and print out some key posts that I would want to share in there as well. This is why I continue to use LJ (I started in 2000), despite it not being the cool place to post anymore. I think it works well for what I need, and I have a great history of journal entries here that are easy to find via the tagging option. I made an of the URLs of the various posts to print in color at work, and then I'll cut the extra white space out of them and stick into my book, interspersed with the ultrasound photos as appropriate.
We did register for a baby book on Amazon and will pick that up as the time gets closer if we haven't received it from someone else. What other kind of 'pre baby' stuff do you think I may want to document in this little album I'm working on now?
I really enjoyed looking through my own baby book as a child and my parent's old photo albums, so I'm trying to keep track of these sorts of everyday things so that our daughter can do the some one day. Our daughter! Just nuts. :)
My sister's invitations were indeed rockin'! She had ordered some matching notecards for folks to leave us parenting advice, and there were such sweet notes from people in the cards that accompanied gifts. In thinking of how to save these things for future looks (and to share with our daughter when she's older and can appreciate them), I went very low tech. We had some time to kill before a class on Monday night, and I picked up an acid-free photo album in Michael's in Burlington (the kind with a big solid sticky page to fit odd-shaped items).
I had stayed home from Tap class on Tuesday because of this darned cold that I'm fighting, and spent some time sticking things from the shower into the book: invitation, advice cards, greeting cards. The good thing about this 'old fashioned' and low-tech approach is that the pages are removeable, and that there are many left to fill. I thought it may be a good place to document our life before baby: the prep that went into it, the ultrasound pictures and that kind of thing. The album is just a plain white leather one with some gold gilding on it. I'll have to check out the scrapbooking stuff to see if I can find some kind of label holder to stick on the spine and front to note what's actually in the book. But I digress.
I have ultrasound pictures to go through, sort by date and put in there. This morning (since I woke up an hour early by accident - doh) I had some time before I left for work to review things tagged as "baby" in my livejournal, and print out some key posts that I would want to share in there as well. This is why I continue to use LJ (I started in 2000), despite it not being the cool place to post anymore. I think it works well for what I need, and I have a great history of journal entries here that are easy to find via the tagging option. I made an of the URLs of the various posts to print in color at work, and then I'll cut the extra white space out of them and stick into my book, interspersed with the ultrasound photos as appropriate.
We did register for a baby book on Amazon and will pick that up as the time gets closer if we haven't received it from someone else. What other kind of 'pre baby' stuff do you think I may want to document in this little album I'm working on now?
I really enjoyed looking through my own baby book as a child and my parent's old photo albums, so I'm trying to keep track of these sorts of everyday things so that our daughter can do the some one day. Our daughter! Just nuts. :)
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Date: 2011-12-15 04:25 pm (UTC)you definitely have after pics of her room!! which is awesome, btw. i have told people about it because of its awesomeness. :D
you could put an arrow on the pic that says, "BEBEH GOES HERE." lol
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Date: 2011-12-15 05:07 pm (UTC)http://www.flickr.com/photos/dancerjodi/sets/72157611295701260/
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Date: 2011-12-15 07:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-15 05:03 pm (UTC)How we met, all about each mom (education, birthplace, hobbies, work,etc), about how we felt when we found out we were pregnant, about what we thought you'd be like (the baby), about the year the baby was born - movies, celebrities, news, the cost of different things like milk or a stamp...
We also had pages going forward for each month with a place for a picture and what the baby learned that month and events that month.
there was something on the house we live in
and then one on the birthing location, who came to see the baby.
footprints and handprints page.
we saved some stuff from the hospital like the card they put on the baby with all his stats.
I created a little album with pictures of the ultrasounds and me for each month of the pregnancy and as Kai has grown, i've added to it pictures of him every once in a while.
To me, the baby book and pre-babybook could be the same one, if you're making your own. Why pay for one if you could make your own with exactly what you want to talk about?
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Date: 2011-12-16 06:58 pm (UTC)