Memories Box

[0iD]

Does anyone else keep these for their children? I must admit to this, I started one for my youngest two children & add to it every now & then. It started with scan pics, their hospital tags, the clip from their umbilical cord, first set of clothes worn etc etc. Now it's grown to include random pictures which I date & put a name to (if it's not obvious), cards, school photo's and workbooks, and it's now a memories chest I just wanted something aside from the photo's and vid clips I can look back on, and something they can share with their children in time.

Just wondering if anyone else does this as there are a lot of new parents on Hexus

[Moby-Dick]

Yep - we've got a box - adding to it all the time

[emzallan]

Sort of along the same lines... When I was in Primary school every year we put our best peice of work into a folder, and in Primary Seven when we went up to high school (I'm Scottish) we got it to take home. Hilarious to look back on, and really worthwhile to do.

My parents kept quite a lot of my stuff, but not to a great extent. I think its really nice to take the time to do this

[oolon]

Having only been a parent for 6 weeks, I haven't started any kind of box yet.Your now making me think I should. What we are doing is photographing her once a month so we can track the changes. She is changing so quickly.

[matty-hodgson]

She is changing so quickly.

Yes, puberty is fast

[angeleyes]

Yep - we've got a box - adding to it all the time

We got the newspapers from the day she was born and they've gone in there too. Although as she was supposed to be born on the Thursday by c-section and eventually came naturally on the Saturday we ended up with a lot of papers.

We got a really cute box with her date of birth and weight on the front. My work also got us a matching photo album, which is more like a scrap book, so i am planning on putting little memory things in there like her scan pictures, and pieces of art work (when she does them, she's only 9 months at the moment).

[shelley bda]

I've kept key bits... Their scan pics, and wrist tags. I've got footprints from when Luke was born, and i've kept their child health books, along with a couple of favourite jumpers they used to wear. And Luke's "cudgie" - a little green scrap of cloth he used to cling too we had two so we could wash one and him not be without. The cards we recieved after their births and their first birthday cards.

I have a bag full of stuff they made at Pre-school, along with progress sheets, and "Lukes special sticker book" - he was diagnosed with Selective Mutism ( even kept the psychologists report! ) and that was their reward system for when he interacted with anyone else lol ( which he never did.... It's a phobia as real as any other ) And some items from their years in reception. I also have a gorgeous book that they made at the end of year six with their class, and a DVD of Luke in his last ever xmas play at school

Now years later we have certificates, progress sheets and reports

[Zak33]

Sair point blank refused to let me keep his first proper big bogey from his nose.. I had a little jar for it and everything.. and it was just amazing.... but she said no

and so I refuse to keep anything