NFL-influenced baby record book?

[cheeseRjedi]

This is probably a stupid question, but...

Are there any suggestions to some baby first years books or baby record books that aren't 'we came home from the hospital and...' or other things that don't really matter in the grand scheme of things? I've always loved scrabooking and making photo albums and stuff but I pulled out my DD's baby book the other day and realized I've hardly filled in anything b/c it's all superficial junk. Do I really care what a loaf of bread costs on the day my DD was born?

[Codi's Mama]

I'd probably just make my own using a computer and then scrapbooking it, if I filled out baby books that is. :

[ericswifey27]

LOL. I am losing it... I read the title as the National Football League...it took me a second

[Twinklefae]

In defense of the silly things.... my mother filled mine out in detail (I was the first ) and I love to read it to this day. I love knowing how much a loaf of bread cost on the day I was born, and all that junk. I especially love how she filled the inside covers with journal type entries about me at different stages. Why do I love this so much? My mother died of breast cancer when I was 11. My father worked shift work for my whole childhood and doesn't remember details. The baby books for me and sister are a precious source of information on our baby-hoods. WE WOULD NOT HAVE THIS INFO WITHOUT THEM. This includes our vax records, travel details... yes it seems trivial and without a doubt you will never forget these things, but you can't guarantee that you will be there. That's why, however much crossing out of things like "First bottle" I have to do I will be filling out a baby book for my dc. Just in case.


*I just re-read this and realized I had a pregnant mood swing mid way through. Sorry.*

[HarperRose]

Originally Posted by Twinklefae

*I just re-read this and realized I had a pregnant mood swing mid way through. Sorry.*

I think we all get that.

I fill out my kids baby books and just cross out the hospital part or the vax part. Incidentally, a gallon of gas in October 2001 was only 99cents.

Now we're paying $2.89/gal in our area and I know it's higher elsewhere. :

[wombatclay]

It's not nfl, but it's also not "froofy"...I used the Baby Owner's Logbook and just got another one for dd2. It has a week by week format with big open pages, so there's plenty of room for just writting in what is going on that week. Every few months there's a page for filling in details like "sits up alone" or "first word" but mostly it's free-form. Oh, and there's a pocket at the back for storing important papers and a section for emergency contact and health info.

[zoebird]

my friends did one for their two kids that i thought was really awesome. they actually have three books and two kids.

they basicly got scrap books and put pictures in it of the pregnant mom--and she journaled about the pregnancy throughout and it includes things such as "news of the day" and "what was daddy up to?" and so it had a lot of really cool stuff in it. then, there were pages about the labor and birth (they were not NFL), the hospital visit, all the details--they did the hand/foot prints in the book, pictures during and after, and they both journaled about the experience and wrote "news of the day" on it.

it's really cool too because they wrote a lot about the baby's personality as it was showing up--not just measurements and what not, but really cool stuff like "oh no! hannah's done it again! she had to have a tantrum!"

anyway, these baby books go up to age 4 for both girls. and, the sibling book is pictures of pregnant momma with big sis--with journal entries from mom, dad, and dictation from sister. then there's that first sibling holding baby picture--a descrption of that form everyone. and how they played together (descrption of the early sibling relationship), and lots of neat pictures.

it was just really cool. dad did most of the work, actually. it's almost all written in his hand--except what his wife wrote. then on the weekend, he'd write what happened that week from his journal. they're really cool books.

he said 'the main thing is, keep on top of it.' he did one to three pictures per week, and one journal entry. more pictures, less writing, less pictures, more writing.

but it's cool. simple, but really cool.

[wombatclay]

Zoebird...that sounds so neat! It's sort of what I'm trying to do with the logbook. Since it's open format it's basically a weekly journal and we put all sorts of stuff in it...rainstorms and how dd reacted to thunder, what she is doing and saying and laughing about, places she goes/people she sees, all the little things that make up the real life of a child/family.

And we have a photo album that covers dd1's first year from u/s pics to pregnant mama to birth...all the way to the first bday.

We're doing the same logbook/photo album for dd2 now, and since her 1st bday I've been using a plain lined journal to record weekly life for dd1. It's gotten a lot less chtty as life hs gotten more hectic but it's worth it to catch those special moments and words that mean so much but wont stay in your memory months or years later...

[CrunchyParent]

I used this one with both my girls and really loved it. I think that this reviewer summed it up well,

"This journal...asks questions that you wouldn't normally think about when writing free form in a regular journal. Some of the questions are "Did you choose to bottlefeed or breastfeed, Why?", "How are you feeling about your body?", "Describe your feelings on the way home from the hospital.", "Describe a typical day for you and your baby." Some questions are asked every week, others every month. There is even a place to put a picture of your baby each month next to some "benchmark" object so you can see how big they are getting. I highly recommend this journal to not only record typical milestones, but also your thoughts, feelings, and emotions as a new Mom. I think it will be a wonderful keepsake for my daughter and an honest memoir of how things were. Lets face it, there are many joys to being a Mom but also many challenges. I think it is great to have a record of both."

As an aside, when I was born, good friends of my parents made me a scrapbook with stuff like the horoscope from the day I was born, news info, grocery circular, etc. I LOVED the snapshot of what the world looked like when I was born. Sadly, I brought it to school for some reason when I was in fifth grade and never saw it again. I still miss it

[cheeseRjedi]

Thanks everyone! Maybe I meant just more 'natural' not necessarily NFL. I ended up doing a calender type first year book for my DD and probably will do a combo of that and the scrapbook idea. Thanks!