Your baby is going to be a tiny newborn and go through all of those magical milestones only one time. Are you prepared to make baby keepsakes to capture those precious moments and create amazing items to display in your home?
You probably are already planning to snap picture after picture with your camera, but there are so many other important ways to capture the memories.
What are you planning to do with the little cap they will wear in the hospital when they are newborn? You can frame it, bronze it, or encase it in acrylic to create a memory you can display and treasure forever.
What about the first booties they wear to church, a family gathering, or other special event? Do you want to capture them in a keepsake to have for the rest of your life?
Probably the most important baby keepsakes you will want to capture are the smallness of their tiny feet and hands. You can capture them with ink imprints on paper, neckties, t-shirts, wall hangings, and in their baby book. You may want to go another step away from ink imprints. You can capture their hands and feet in an impression done in clay, or other mold-able materials. It can then be fired and turned into a beautiful display item for your home.
The most common of all baby keepsakes is the baby book. Make sure you take the time to fill it out every day. It only takes a moment to fill in the entries needed, but if you wait, the information is lost.
You must create a photo album of your baby, not just a digital collection of photos. You want a book filled with the pictures which can sit on your coffee table for others to look through. The most interested person will be your baby when they get old enough to enjoy pictures. You will find them looking through the album time after time, pointing at the pretty baby in the pictures, and telling anyone nearby, “me, me me” or “baby, baby, baby”.
Your baby keepsakes do not need to stop there. Think about the very special gifts you were given. Handmade blankets, pillows, sweaters, and other items. When your baby has outgrown using them, or you are ready to preserve them, have a keepsakes chest to put them away. These items will give you joy each time you look at them, and will be a treasured gift you can hand down when they are grown and married.
Baby keepsakes are not really just for your enjoyment. They are just as much for your baby’s future enjoyment. They are going to be curious about their beginnings, and start to life. This interest blossoms even more as they reach an age they are ready to start having their own children. They will be thrilled to see, and have, any baby keepsakes you have created. Do not let them down.