Creating A Scrapbook Of Your Baby

Creating A Scrapbook Of Your Baby
By Audrey Okaneko

I think baby scrapbooks are probably the most fun to create. As
parents, we want to capture absolutely everything and so we snap
photos daily of our babies dressed in every outfit and
everywhere we go. This gives us hundreds of possibilities in
creating our scrapbook.

My suggestion for the first scrapbook is to keep track of your
baby’s age and sort the photos according to age.

Your title page could be “The First Twelve Months”. If you
create just 2 pages for each month, your scrapbook will have 24
pages of photos plus all the other pages you add.

At the beginning of the album you might want to record some
birth information, such as height and weight, name of hospital,
name of delivering doctor and date and time of birth. It’s also
neat to write how you came to choose the baby’s name. Was the
baby named after someone? If so, include a photo of that person.

During those twelve months if you take a photo of the child in
the same spot each month, you’ll really be able to see the
growth. For example, if the child has a large stuffed animal,
put the animal next to the child for each photo. You’ll be
amazed at how apparent the child’s growth is.

Something I think is fun is to capture news stories that
happened that first month. You can clip headline articles out of
the newspaper and copy them onto acid free paper. Capture both
local news and world news of what’s happening the day they are
brought into this world.

Create a basic family tree for your baby album. If you have
photos of you and your spouse, both sets of parents and both
sets of grandparents, that is an awesome beginning for your
child’s scrapbook.

My kids had to visit the doctor quite often in the beginning.
This tapered off as they got older. I always saved the sheets
the doctor gave us which recorded their height and weight.

Capture the “firsts”. Take photos of the first time eating
food, first time sitting up and first time taking a bath. Take
photos of holidays and celebrations through out the year.

You’ll find tons of scrapbook supplies available for a baby
album, including paper, stickers, diecuts, cutouts and
embellishments. You can have so much fun in creating your baby’s
first album.

About the Author: Audrey Okaneko has been scrapbooking for
several years. She can be reached at audreyoka@cox.net or
visited at http://www.scrapping-made-simple.com

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