mementos

what have you kept of your child's?  do you keep their hair? their teeth?  what about their belly button?

yes.  i have kept, or plan to keep, each of these things for my girls.  i have a little box for each of them that houses things from when they were brand new babies.  you can find ultrasound images, pictures, hospital bracelets, a birth announcement, a newborn diaper, the bows they wore in the hospital, their pacifier, and even their belly button scabs that fell off.  in k's baby book, i have a couple of clippings of hair taped in.  when they lose their teeth, i fully plan to at least keep the first. 

i know there is a range of tolerance when it comes to keeping things.  just recently a friend was asking if she should keep her child's first lost tooth.  i say, absolutely!  but then i am the crazy mom who has saved her baby's gross old belly button.  but hey, i've recently gone through k's box with her and you know what her favorite item was?  the belly button... although she didn't dare touch it :)