June 29, 2007

The Baby Book

Dear Ella:

I am sorry I don't have a baby book for you, all neatly filled in with the dates of your Firsts - your first smile, your first full night of sleep, your first tooth - sprinkled with appropriate photographs marking the occasion and a heartfelt note here and there. In fact, I did receive two books specifically for this purpose at your baby shower, but I sold them on eBay because they were brand new but too ugly for me to use, and I knew they would sell for a good price. Your Mama, she's a hustler sometimes.

This first whole year has just been so foggy, and those first three months are a complete blur. Days turn into weeks and months and suddenly you are this entirely new little thing, with new skills and new jokes and new experiments to conduct. It's hard to mark when the changes start because I don't notice them until they're over.

But I do have an entire roll of 35 mm film documenting your first bites of solid food at 6 months. I promise I will get it developed sometime before 35 mm film becomes completely extinct. That counts for something, right?

Love,
Mom

1 comment:

Martha said...

I never did a baby book for my daughter, either. I re-gifted the beautiful book I got. Even funnier is that I put together a beautiful scrapbook for my sister, who just had a baby. Why would I do it for someone else's kid and not my own?? Beats me!