Now that I’ve begun Nathaniel’s book, I wanted to share a little about my process. Months ago, I bought the baby kit from Lisa Bearnson’s KOTM, designed by Becky Higgins, thinking I would use it for Nathaniel.
I loved parts of the kit and wasn’t crazy about other parts so I made my own amalgamation of her ideas and mine.
I started with some of Becky’s cards and holders where I wrote his birth story, our tags from the hospital, the paper my sister-in-law Leila gave with the candles at my baby shower, etc. This is all the stories up to and day of Nathaniel’s birth.
Then comes one of the pregnancy tests I had taken. The only one that still shows the “pregnant” line. (Maybe it’s gross but I save these things.) and on the back is the paper where I kept track of Nathaniel’s pees and poops for the first few days.
Then comes the first piece of clothing they ever put him in. I also have his first hat and will put it in the back. And then one of Becky’s monthly cards to indicate the beginning of the first month.
And then the first layout welcoming Nathaniel to the world and finally a layout with one of the photos taken in his first week.
Next to the layouts is a page that has 4×6 photos from the other days on the first week. So I take photos of Nathaniel every day which means I have 7 photos a week. I scrap one and put the other six on a page that holds six 4×6’s. This way the spread shows the entire week.
So these are the first four weeks of his life. All the photos and all four (plus the one welcoming him) layouts. I do this for each month.
And finally, each month ends with this long journaling paper that came with the kit where I write about that month. Oh, and, each time we go to the doctor and he’s weighed, I use one of the stamps the kit came with and note his height/weight on the photo of the day when we went to the doctor.
that’s it!
