Day 361 - Track Your Baby’s Growth Visually
Today’s first time parenting tip - Track your baby’s growth with yearly pictures and an object
Want to track your baby’s growth, but don’t want to mark up the doors in your house? Try what my wife and I are planning on doing.
Every year, we’ll take a picture. The idea is that he’ll be wearing the same kind of clothes (I think we both like jeans and a plain, red shirt). In the picture we’re also going to have some kind of object that will show how much he’s grown.
I want to do a ball. My wife wants to do an adult sized belt (He’ll wear the belt and it’ll be ridiculously large until he’s 10 or 11).
After you do this you’ll have a great record of how your baby grew and changed his appearance over the years. And they’ll love looking at it in the end to see how far they’ve come.
Classic Jef on February 16th 2007 in Year 1
Holly U responded on 24 May 2007 at 10:06 pm #
I’ve seen several varations of this. Putting the child in an armchair, posed next to a stuffed animal, wearing a tee shirt of some significance (a youth or adult size, obviously), every year, perhaps on their birthday or a holiday…and then you’ll have great growth documentation through the photos!
I’ve taken pictures of my son in his cradles and bouncy chairs where you can really see the difference in 7 months, but for posterity, it will be the ones i’ve done with him laying next to my old hippo stuffed animal from my childhood. It’s about 2.5 feet long, so it’s a great tool for seeing how our baby is growing in this first year! Thanks for bringing this up!