Baby Album - Themes for Pages.

[meldalj]

Hi All ,

This thread is part of the New Moms Baby Albums thread .

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16522

I'd thought Id start a place where we can put down our ideas for themes for layouts and get ideas from others !

Join in please!

Ant

[meldalj]

Current Ideas -

Layouts of milestones - smiling,sitting,crawling,standing .
Baptism layout .
Monthly layouts .
Pages of Dad and Baby

Ant

[susielein]

Well, those must be the obvious ones, because they're the ones I thought of.
Here's another hard one to do, though: Birth Story and/or hospital stay
For some reason that one was really intimidating to me. Probably because it seems so important and because I have a billion photos!

Here are some more milestones, or events, just to jog everyone's memory:
First haircut
Rolling over
First tooth

I was also thinking of doing one page with a few of the smaller milestones like:
Finding toes
Holding spoon
Pushing up
Grabbing a toy
Finding thumb
Sleep through the night

Oh, and I decided that my "theme" is just going to be my kit. Most LO's in the album will be done using one kit. Some I'll do with different kits if they just seem to need a different color scheme. It won't look completely cohesive, but then again, if they were all the same, the person looking at the scrapbook would start to ignore the backgrounds and just look at the photos. I put too much time into a LO for them to just ignore it! :)

[tammyaline]

I must be such a mean mom ... I keep dressing my little boy in costumes and taking pictures lol

He has so far been a pumpkin, a leprechaun, a bunny and now I just bought him a lion outfit for this halloween.

then I do monthly pages of him hes now 11 months so Im not sure how often I will do pages after 1 year but one day I swear hes gonna hate me HAHA

Ah well

[Amanda]

How fun! Have you guys seen our new baby cd??? it is awesome!

[Shutterbug1975]

Hey! I do the costume thing too (see my gallery) its too much fun!!! You are near Edmonton and I am in Calgary! Small world!

[cherebus]

I know with my son's first year album I did a combination of milestones, monthly pictures and family events but sometimes it was just the day to day moments that were the sweetest. The ones that show the emerging personality.

[marie_em]

Here is my scrapbook plan for my son’s album the ones with the numbers have either been done, started on I definitely plan to do. Other below are maybes.

Pages:

00: Welcome to Baby’s first scrapbook
01: My family tree
02: Day I was born
03/ 04: 9 months or 40 weeks (ultrasounds, growing belly photos etc)

05: First Days – In the hospital
06: Coming Home – my first home
07/ 08: I love my mum and dad

09: 0-6 months
10: 7-12 months

11: My Baptism
12: My 1st's – double page of milestones

13: My new teeth – dates they came in – plan of teeth etc.

14: 1st Halloween – I’m a little pumpkin
15: 1st Summer Holiday
16: 1st Christmas
17: 1st Birthday

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I like to eat – first solids
Bathtime
I love to sleep

extended family
My bedroom/ In my cot
I love grannies and grandpas
My dog
My toys

Firsts:
Bath, Visits Grandparents, finds hands, finds thumb, first baby sitter, first smile, visits doctor,
Grasps objects, sleeps thro the night, rolls over, sits alone, holds bottle, first toy
eats veggies, eats fruit, feeds self, crawls, drinks from a cup, waves bye bye, first word,
first tooth, says Mama, says Dada
first haircut, stands alone, first steps, walks alone, first shoes

hope some of my ideas are of use.

[meldalj]

Marie - you are sure going to be busy . I need to do some more , Im just working on an album for my sister now .

Ant

[mlchalmers]

I think I am going to take a picture each month then journaling his milestones for the month.

[petulantfem]

For the first 2 PG LOs for each of my boys, I did a "Year in Review" type thing - sort of like a highschool yearbook layout. I had their hospital photo and birth stats; price of gas and stamp; notable events in the news and in the family; where we lived; a photo of their birth bracelets with a penny in the middle for scale; birth announcement from paper; a little blurb with their horoscope and what their names mean; and a little journalling called "Did you know that..." with random facts such as what they would have been called if they were girls, what their original due date was, etc.

[petulantfem]

I also think it is super cute to take the baby's picture with the same stuffed animal every month for their first year - I did not do this, but wish I had.

[petulantfem]

I also did one full page of journaling for their birth stories. It was easier for my 2nd son, since I wrote it all down the next day, whereas with my 1st son I was trying to remember exactly what happened and how I felt 3 years later. Also, my 1st was a C-Section, and 2nd was natural, so I found I had a LOT more to say with the 2nd. lol