After reading this post, please send an email to mckennafellow@gmail.com.
A better title for this post is "Baby books and all that crap."
In my last month of pregnancy with Quinn, I spent a lot of time working on her decked-out baby book. I wanted it a certain way. I bought a basic one at the store, cut the pages out, added some of my own, and then put them all in a HUGE three ring binder. A lot got done on the book ... until she came. I have rarely touched it since. But it is still cool.
I also kept a day-by-day calendar for just about every day in her first year of life. That is cool.
But it has always been my intention to keep different keepsakes for each child. I never planned to make that same book for my next baby or buy that same calendar. I figured I could never keep up, so why try?
Instead I want to think of new ways to remember McKenna.
The first thing I have done is started her an email account: mckennafellow@gmail.com.
I have already started to send her emails with my thoughts about her and how I am getting ready. I kept a last month of pregnancy journal in Quinn's baby book, and it is cool. I wanted to record similar thoughts and events for McKenna but in a different way and continue it throughout her first few years.
YOU CAN HELP: I would LOVE for any of you to send McKenna an email over the next few weeks. It can be short and sweet. Anything will do. I just think it would be cool for her to look back when she is older and read about the people who were waiting and caring. You can send her your thoughts about me or her or updates on your life or pictures of you or your kinds. Anything. It would mean a lot to me.
I am also going to invest in a fancy hand and foot print thing. I didn't do this for Quinn, and I really want to tile with a babies imprinted hand, so McKenna it is. I saw a sample at the Doctors office, and I am going for it.
My final keepsake for McKenna will this blog ALL about her. I feel like I never hear enough about people's second child. I often forget these children exist ... even if I really love them. So her blog will be a place for me to record McKenna's stories and day to day life AND a way for people who care to keep up on her. Hint, Hint: I wish my sister would keep a blog like this for Peyton because sometimes I feel so far away.
Anyway, that is it. If you have any other suggestions, let me know. And let's get those emails flowing!! Also, any congratulation emails or emails about McKenna that you send to me, will be forwarded to McKenna's account for safe keeping.
A better title for this post is "Baby books and all that crap."
In my last month of pregnancy with Quinn, I spent a lot of time working on her decked-out baby book. I wanted it a certain way. I bought a basic one at the store, cut the pages out, added some of my own, and then put them all in a HUGE three ring binder. A lot got done on the book ... until she came. I have rarely touched it since. But it is still cool.
I also kept a day-by-day calendar for just about every day in her first year of life. That is cool.
But it has always been my intention to keep different keepsakes for each child. I never planned to make that same book for my next baby or buy that same calendar. I figured I could never keep up, so why try?
Instead I want to think of new ways to remember McKenna.
The first thing I have done is started her an email account: mckennafellow@gmail.com.
I have already started to send her emails with my thoughts about her and how I am getting ready. I kept a last month of pregnancy journal in Quinn's baby book, and it is cool. I wanted to record similar thoughts and events for McKenna but in a different way and continue it throughout her first few years.
YOU CAN HELP: I would LOVE for any of you to send McKenna an email over the next few weeks. It can be short and sweet. Anything will do. I just think it would be cool for her to look back when she is older and read about the people who were waiting and caring. You can send her your thoughts about me or her or updates on your life or pictures of you or your kinds. Anything. It would mean a lot to me.
I am also going to invest in a fancy hand and foot print thing. I didn't do this for Quinn, and I really want to tile with a babies imprinted hand, so McKenna it is. I saw a sample at the Doctors office, and I am going for it.
My final keepsake for McKenna will this blog ALL about her. I feel like I never hear enough about people's second child. I often forget these children exist ... even if I really love them. So her blog will be a place for me to record McKenna's stories and day to day life AND a way for people who care to keep up on her. Hint, Hint: I wish my sister would keep a blog like this for Peyton because sometimes I feel so far away.
Anyway, that is it. If you have any other suggestions, let me know. And let's get those emails flowing!! Also, any congratulation emails or emails about McKenna that you send to me, will be forwarded to McKenna's account for safe keeping.
loven the blog.
ReplyDeleteps. discrepency in emails...i'll send one to both...