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By: Other Bun Stuff « Red Pen Mama

Other Bun Stuff « Red Pen Mama — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:58:12 +0000

[...] responses I was over at Jayesel’s place reading about her daughter, and I realize Bun and Maggie are doing the same stuff. Although Jayesel doesn’t mention if [...]

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:33:08 +0000

So cute! And BTW, my memories of Andrew totally change in retrospect. What seemed like FOREVER at the time was only a few weeks, and what he was doing early or late 6 months ago seems totally irrelevant. ;) I am, however, obsessive about his baby book (I write in in every month) and I love looking back and realizing how different my perspective is now. Lauras last blog post: longest short week 2008

By: ChristineMM aka The Thinking Mother

ChristineMM aka The Thinking Mother — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:45:22 +0000

I'm not into scrapbooking but I hear that digital scrapbooking is also a new easy thing you do the work all over the Internet using your digital photos. Also very 'milennium baby book' like! :) ChristineMM aka The Thinking Mothers last blog post: A Poem About Suburbia by Tony Cavin

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:23:50 +0000

I find myself doing the same thing, going back through blog posts to find out exactly when Oliver did something. I do have a baby book that I filled out throughout his first year, and since then I've been writing letters now and then in the blank pages in the back. I printed out his birthday letters from my blog and stuck them in there too. But look at all the photos we take of our kids these days... tons more than our parents took of us!... so I think having all those memories captured is quite a "baby book" in itself. And having your blog will not only provide Maggie with memories from her childhood, but someday when she's in college and getting married and having babies (!), she can look back to see what YOU were doing/thinking when you were going through those things, and that will be really special for her to have. :) Kids learn so much just by listening and observing. It's hard trying to keep up with teaching them, honestly, because their brains are always a few steps ahead of ours! Melissas last blog post: and when there was no moon she watched the stars

By: Steph

Steph — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:43:52 +0000

I am very proud to report that I did keep a baby book but they were all "approximations" - I didn't run to the thing the very same day she hit a milestone. I'd go in a week or two later and try to remember the day.. most of them were just guesses (but close enough). In said baby book, there was also a place where you stamp their feet and hands to record how small they were - yeah, I stamped Heidi at like 3 months or something. When I finally remembered ;) I'm glad I kept that kind of record because I stopped blogging shortly after she was born... Anyway - it's great that Maggie is doing so well with numbers, shapes and letters! You know what I found really helped Heidi pick up the colours was when I would let her draw with crayons. Whenever she'd reach for one I'd tell her the colour. Then we got to a stage where she had to ask me for a colour before I gave her one. It was great fun for both of us and now she's a pro with colour :) (side note: at my aunt's Christmas party on Sat, we had her up on the pool table to play with the balls.. and I mentioned that she knew all of her colours and we got challeneged, and Heidi came through!) Stephs last blog post: Why Having Your Own Office Rules

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:18:58 +0000

@red pen mama: Maggie is home with me 3 days a week, and I still have no idea where she learns half this stuff! I think some of it is Sesame Street, and some is daycare, and a lot is Dan- he goes through her letters and numbers every night, making a point to teach her things. It's actually really cool to watch! I'm just the lazy slacker mom who lets Sesame Street teach her the rest, ha! (Though we did look for colors together at Costco this morning!)

By: red pen mama

red pen mama — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:52:36 +0000

Oh, good. I was going to write this post for Bun, but now I’m just going to link here, saying: Go see what Maggie’s doing. Bun’s doing it too.

I was so surprised the other night when Bun counted to 10. I didn’t teach her that! Sigh. Sometimes working outside the home makes me sad.

ciao,
rpm

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:37:12 +0000

Of course you'll never forget a milestone. Super Moms never do. That's why we're so good at make-believe stories. Karens last blog post: This Is A Public Service Announcement

By: Priscilla

Priscilla — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:30:53 +0000

Those baby books are so freaking hard to keep up with! I have one for each of the kids and I have to say that I did well with all the younger stuff until they hit about 2 then it is blank! Why do they make those books go until the kid is five anyway?!!

By: Dave P.

Dave P. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:04:05 +0000

My wonderful wife managed to put together a scrapbook as a baby book for Abby's first year, but we decided that would be it as far as scrapbooking went, due to the time and materials involved. I agree with sparkyd, the blog is a great record of her life and mom & dad's life as she grew up. Definitely keep backups! Offsite! :-) Also, as to the printed book option; I have heard of this, and can't remember the original one I ran across for putting a blog into book format, but I recently ran across Blurb.com and they seem to have some great options for creating your own book. I have seen their output, and the quality is great - check them out if you are interested in that kind of thing! Dave P.s last blog post: Enjoying the glow: Pittsburgh Light Up Night 2008