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New moms have some creative methods to record the monthly growth of their babies these days. My niece Paige has been taking monthly photos of her daughter Neelly with a stuffed monkey. Either the monkey is shrinking or Neelly is growing. Paige got the monthly sign kit as a baby shower gift.
The signs were a lot more rudimentary, but Moms back in the "olden days" also recorded the passage of time for their babies.
My Mom took this photo of me at 3 months.
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I continued the tradition with my kids (True confessions: I wasn't as consistent as I should have been. And I definitely should have put the photos in an album as I went so I wouldn't spend my "golden years" searching through plastic tubs for hidden treasure. Where, oh where, was digital photography when I needed it!?)
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Let's just say Millie will probably take a back seat in the picture department when a certain little Ladd arrives in January.
Glad Neelly could be a blog star again!
ReplyDeleteAnd to show you a sign of the times, I set a reminder in the calendar of my phone for every 6th of the month to help me remember!!
Thanks for sharing the photo! I guess that's my excuse: I didn't have a newfangled phone to remind me to record the important milestones. (Come to think of it, my phone still doesn't do that. I need to upgrade like your Mom did!)
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