I should do this both for them and for all of my current and future friends, because I have a terrible memory. I don't want to be that annoying mother who swears her child was discussing the effect of expatriate authors on American literature at eighteen months. (Is it wrong that I am looking forward to having that discussion with my kids?)
However, it's been over three years since Abbey's birth, and her one-year scrapbook is still a scrapbox. Which means that there is a scrapbook, various paper crafting supplies, and lots of pictures thrown into a wicker box in her closet. I even started a more traditional baby book halfway through 2008 in hopes that I would be more consistent with that. It's in the scrapbox as well.
Dylan's first steps? I don't know exactly, though the date's on a post-it note somewhere. Despite those first steps, he's been sticking with his speed-of-light crawling for a while. Something about the Nashville air inspired him, though, because he's suddenly walking much more than crawling and building up to speeds I don't even want to think about.
Suddenly, he's upgraded from a crawler who sometimes walks to this little man who stalks around the house like Frankenstein, all flat feet and balancing arms. And I'm upgraded from a mommy of a baby and a preschooler to a mommy of a toddler and a preschooler.
I need to stop blinking, because I need to soak in every single moment of their beautiful little lives.
We've had some parents write on their kindergarten enrollment papers that their kids began walking at 3 months!! or talking in sentences at 6 months!! I hope you figure yours out before you have to write it down on permanent paperwork:))
ReplyDeleteI am so glad to have found a kindred spirit...because I kep track of nothing, not first words not first steps and I feel some shame in that. But I also know there will be things I never forget like the smell of their heads after a bath and the way their smiles light up a room. I hope my heart never forgets that even if my mind might.
ReplyDeleteOh no! I'm going to have to consolidate my collection of milestone post-its!
ReplyDeleteI am so bad at all of that. You're ahead of me with having a scrapbox. I'm just glad I have a blog. It may not be everything, but I catch some of their stories and milestones. I guess I'll just give them the url when they move out.
ReplyDeleteMy friend prints out her blog in these nice, bound books. Your idea of handing them the url makes me smile!
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