Brooks' Baby Book

Just two weeks after Brooks was born, I began working on his baby book.  I knew from working on my pregnancy journal that I wanted something different and one of a kind. I had no idea when I started that it would end as a stunning, 5.5lbs, 327 page, 12 month labor of love. But it did and I couldn't be any happier with it!  However, it has set a standard that I now know will have to be met with each subsequent Hall baby and I am a little fearful of that as creating this with one babe in the house was challenging enough!  

I've received some requests after my posts of its progress and arrival on Instagram to share some of the content of the book.  Please know, I cannot take credit for the book in its entirety.  I scoured Pinterest and baby books in physical stores for hours seeking ideas for content and format.  I modeled the cover off one I particularly fell in love with off Pinterest one evening before Brooks was even born. Page by page it began to fall together...

A peek inside:

~ monthly journal entries to Brooks & a stats page with monthly picture
~ people who came to visit in hospital & pics of them
~ social media birth announcement & first birthday wishes
~ what things cost the year born
~ teething chart & teething habits
~ nicknames
~ professional pictures
~ first haircut
~ first holidays
~ first house & first nursery
~ doctors : delivery & pediatrician
~ immunization record & birth certificate
~ baby dedication attendees, cards, & certificate from church
~ first birthday invite & attendees

Along with 1200+ plus pictures of every day life, events, trips, and so on.  What would we do without an iPhone camera?! In the back I've also began taping in ticket stubs, voting stickers, first birthday wrapping paper, and so on.  I decided to close the book in my own way though, and wrote a letter to my future daughter in law.  Yes, it was as strange & difficult to write as you may imagine it would be! 

Behold, 12 x 12 inches of Brooks' first year of life in all its glory!

Book created and published by Blurb.

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