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Ok, I've never actually seen a babybook. My mom always wanted to do one for each of us kids (there are 5 of us) but never got around to it. She wanted to learn to do calligraphy so that it'd be "prettier" or something.
My question is... how many of you have a baby book for your kids? And, what goes in a baby book? Like... I imagine pictures, but do they come with pages for you to write in for like, first word, step etc?
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the baby books I'm thinking of you buy at the store and fill in (first words, hand print, pictures, comments, etc)... I have one for ds, and have the best intensions, but he's 13 months and I've hardly filled ANYTHING in on it..... I feel guilty kinda about it
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I have a baby calendar and a baby book and a baby album. The calendar I fill up with everyday stuff, the book is halfway full because I started it and didn't finish (it's on my to-do list) and the album is empty because my husband has all their pictures in the computer and not printed!! I'd do it myself but don't really know how--sounds complicated. I've always envied moms who scrapbook--I guess that can be a babybook.
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I have a baby book and a scrapbook for Aidan's first year, although it took up TWO scrapbooks by the time I got it done. I also did a calendar that I marked every day things on and his milestones, so I could also put them in the baby book, then as I did the pages for his scrapbook, I put the calendar page for that month with the pages.
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I am anal. I did calendars, years one AND two PLUS used a regular calendar for a third year, AND kept baby books on ALL SIX of my kids!! As for nice handwriting, I know from experience, it is wonderful to look back at things my mom or even my grandmother wrote and see THEIR handwriting. It is actually what makes it special to me. I don't care really what I weighed or when I got a tooth, but I do love seeing how my MOM got excited over it, what she wrote about it, etc. in HER words and HER normal handwriting!!
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Originally Posted by blessed_with_6
I am anal. I did calendars, years one AND two PLUS used a regular calendar for a third year, AND kept baby books on ALL SIX of my kids!! As for nice handwriting, I know from experience, it is wonderful to look back at things my mom or even my grandmother wrote and see THEIR handwriting. It is actually what makes it special to me. I don't care really what I weighed or when I got a tooth, but I do love seeing how my MOM got excited over it, what she wrote about it, etc. in HER words and HER normal handwriting!!
I have to agree with Jen on that. I also like comparing at what ages my DB and I did things compared to when DS does them.