The Upside of the Downside

Or, to the rest of us, caterpillars and spaghetti.  It dawned on me today when Macie caught a callapitter that I foolishly thought I’d remember all the cute ways my kids have mispronounced words over the years, and sadly, I don’t.  I remember Kylie calling a rainbow a “bebo”, and both twins called their Uncle Brad “Beaglered”, but thats about all I remember.  My dad even told me to write that stuff down and I thought “Maybe other moms do that, but I’ll remember everything! These monumental (and not so big) things will be forever etched in the sterling silver of my memory.”  Not so!  And now I feel badly that I won’t be able to tell my kids what their first word was (unless “babababa” counts, lol) or when they said it.  I’ll only be able to take a semi educated guess at when they crawled or walked.  I’ll have to sneak a look at pictures to estimate when first teeth arrived.

So, to those of you with baby books that actually have filled in blanks, my hat is off to you.  Can I copy yours?