Dear Soleil, I cannot wait to share this with you! My journey in trying to remember...all of this!

The first gift I received from Alex when we found out we were expecting was The Belly Book. Certainly, I would start here, document my entire pregnancy then move on to the baby book.  It's just expected that most women would want to keep track of all these precious moments especially during a time when thoughts seem to get lost in a restless mind and memories fade.  I know I was excited about the gift and the thought of tracking my pregnancy over the next nine months sounded cool.  And would you believe it, I SUCCEEDED!  I actually completed my entire pregnancy book, printed pictures and all! Now, here I am as a new, first time mama trying my hardest to document all these sweet moments of my baby girl.  Forget remembering all this; the memories of my birth are already quickly fading and I cannot even remember what I did yesterday!  For me this is important, not only would I like to look back on major milestones, but to also relive our first bonding moments. What a joy it will be to share with her when she is older!  I loved seeing my silly little baby pictures throughout the years as the time arose to fumble through old picture books with family.  So many ideas came to mind; journaling, traditional baby books, apps, keeping a tight organization of my photos by month (you laughed at that one didn't you?!?!?!)....it was overwhelming and exhausting just thinking about it all.  Someone even gifted me those monthly sticker props to take cute photos each birth day for the first 12 months....this is as far as I got before I spaced it!  Just like Sunny here, I was excited about it for a second then the thought just faded off into the baby brain abyss.

Documenting Sunny's adventures became most apparent to me one particular day I spent with my own mother during my pregnancy.  My parents divorced when I was very young, around the age of 4.  I always lived with my dad growing up and spent time visiting my mother at specified times.  My mother moved around a lot, traveled and changed jobs often I can remember.  I knew she was a sentimental person, so creative, artistic and loved her keepsakes. But she blew me away one day when she told me she had some things of mine to share with me from my childhood.  Next thing I knew she had pulled down two Tupperware bins full of my baby clothing, items from my first nursery and small keepsakes.  I even recognized some pieces from old photos! How in the world did she move all this from place to place for over 30 years!  We laughed and cried together going through everything piece by piece.  I will always remember and cherish that day with my sweet mama!  From this moment on I knew I wanted to do this with my daughter someday whether I save some baby items, artwork, photos, etc.  I just knew I wanted to share all of this with her one day.  So how was I to preserve all this?!?!

My sweet mama with my now incredible vintage baby clothes....best of all they are my vintage pieces! 

How cute is this little Hawaiian shirt...Sunny will totally sport this soon!

A girlfriend of mine just had a baby girl as well.  We were only a month apart and she was feeling the same way, until a friend shared this video with her.  She encouraged me to do the same.  It would be by far the easiest, quickest, and most savvy way to surely capture all of the fun.  Take a look and if you are anything like me have a tissue handy!




It definitely is a kick ass video for Google Chrome that's for sure!  For us, this was genius.  Most of the photos we take are from our phones; we can quickly capture moments and send an email right away. So after seeing this video I started a Gmail account for my daughter (make sure to use all your information as the email address cannot technically belong to a child under 12, I believe). I took it a step further and shared the email with all our close friends and family so they can share their special moments together.  Alex and I do not check the email either, so it will be a sweet time for us when we decide to read years down the road.  Now instead of stressing, I look forward to each and every email I write to her.