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s/o baby books
After Cheeky's comments, now I'm curious. Did your mothers do baby books for you? Did the mommies on here do them for all their kids?
I have a very clear memory of looking through my big sister's baby book and asking my mom why I didn't have one. I remember feeling kinda hurt (though as an adult I realize that's totally vain and childish). I remember my mom somehow politely explaining that the second baby wasn't as much of a big deal. Just curious how common that is.
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Re: s/o baby books
bwahaha...I was a first born buuuuut to a 16 year old. If she did something, it was long lost in some public storage unit somewhere or something. It has never bothered me, and I don't really care to do a baby book for even this first baby of ours. With blogs and photobooks and all the digital recording of info and data we have these days, the paper baby books I see at Borders and such just seem cumbersome and outdated to me.
I was the firstborn, as well as the first grandchild, so I was a pretty big deal.
I have tons of photo albums, baby books, professional pictures (not only of holidays and birthdays, but seriously, professional pictures of me every month of my first year). There are home videos, snapshots, jewlery and other different keepsakes. I don't have them all, but my mom, grandma, Godmother, and dad all have some. I was spoiled and lavished with attention for my first 5 years because I was the only kid around, and the only girl (Princess) for a long time after that.
My mom had my three younger siblings all back to back over the next 5 years, and she was so busy, that I don't think they have nearly the amount of baby stuff that I got. Although my sister V (she is the next in line after me, born 6 years after me) was the firstborn of my mom and step-dad, so they made a big fuss over her too. And they made a big fuss over my brother because he was the "long-awaited boy". I do feel bad for my sister D, who was born in between them and was "supposed to be the boy". She has major middle child issues (and i can't say that I blame her).
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I think my mom started one for my brother, but it's not even close to being completed. I'm not sure I had one.
Honestly, I never remember those things bothering me too much. Maybe it was different because we were a boy and girl. I never had to wear hand me down clothing or play with his old toys. I actually even got the nicer car as a teenager because my parents worried too much about me driving an older car.
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Very common. I'm the second baby too. My brother had a full on baby book with all the details filled out, and lots and lots of pictures of him as a baby and kid. Me? Not so much.
You can think it's vain and childish :P but I think it's totally lame. I mean, I get that it's harder when you have two kids, but it still sucks.
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Mine is amazing. There are probably about 3 of them total and a diary of my first 6 months of life. My poor brother has a pretty basic baby book and no diary.
He likes to say that he was unloved. He joked one time when we were watching home videos that they were all of me and that they probably kept him in the closet, next thing you know my dad walks into my bedroom with the video camera and low and behold my brother is playing in the closet. That pretty much sums up his lift
My mom had one for me, but didn't fill out much of the information after the first couple months.
We have one for C, but it's nearly blank. We keep a blog for the family that really captures all the info that would otherwise go in the baby book. Sometime I'll go back and fill in the book and eventually I'll probably also do the blog to book type thing to make a photo book of the blog.
my mom did one for me, did a half hearted attempt for my younger sister, did a haphazard one for my brother and my baby sister .. well she doesn't have one.
i'm doing one for dd ... i like going back through mine. i want her to do the same.