I hope you don’t mind if I indulge you a little more in Henry talk. To be honest, I don’t have much else to talk about at the moment. Projects are pretty much at a halt for me. Unless you consider feeding Henry, putting him to sleep, changing diapers, and doing an insane amount of laundry as projects?
No?
I don’t really think so either.
Anyhow … I wanted to find a simple way to consistently capture moments as Henry grows, particularly in the first weeks. I have seen some awesome ideas on Pinterest and other blogs about ways to do this. (I particularly love the monthly photos by Shannon at Shannanigans, Emily at Imperfect and Our Dream Foreclosure.) But, since I’m insane, I decided to do them weekly.
Mostly because I’m afraid that monthly photos will slide by without me remembering. And by the end of the month, I’m afraid I’ll forget things that happened at the beginning of the month. I’m already forgetting moments from when he was born, if I don’t write them in his baby book. But weekly, I can make part of my routine (I think)..
I’m not committing to do this for the entire year because to be honest, I think life may get a bit insane when I go back to work. (A few of you asked, and I’m planning to go back to work at 10 weeks, which is early August.) But, maybe it will be easier than I think. And, I’m going to give myself a little leeway. If I don’t take the picture on Friday, THAT’S OKAY. But I’ll try take a photo sometime during the week.
Because my memory is terrible, I wanted to capture a few things about him from each week, too. Here’s the very simple way I came up with. Weekly photos on his quilt, in whatever outfit fits him and I like at the time. Then, plopped into a simple layout with some of his likes, dislikes and talents for the week.
I figure that I can easily put these into a photo book to pair with his baby book. Because every child needs multiple baby books, right? (Ryan keeps joking that we’ll show these books to his girlfriends when he gets older, which will humiliate him.)
We’ll see how this goes. The best laid plans …
Here’s his first few weeks, for those who are interested.
What do you think of our little project?
Would you unfollow me if I begin sharing these photos every week? (I promise we’ll get back to other topics at some point. Like when Henry’s three years old. I kid. I kid.)
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I love it! It’s amazing to see how much he had grown and changed in 4 weeks!
So cute!! His little face is starting to fill out – I see chubby cheeks in the near future
I love this idea! And um, you are absolutely required to post these as often as possible. I think you’ll have no problem doing it once a week. I looked forward to doing it once a month but it also stressed me a little when I couldn’t find part of his costume. But what else did I have to do? Ha.
How could I unFollow you for sharing pics of such a cutie?! I’m living vicariously through you with the boy stuff!!
Wow another great idea Mrs. Kim I love it! I must say once again Henry is adorable those cheeks looks so kissable
) I can’t believe I only have 11 or so weeks left. Gulp.
First of all, freakin’ adorable! Love, love, love! What a cutie pie.
Second of all, if someone unfollows you for posting pics of your amazing and beautiful baby I will hunt them down and do something really mean to them.
Haha. I kid.
At any rate … share away Momma Woodward!
You know I love seeing pictures of Henry. If someone unfollows you, they unfollow you. Hopefully people will understand that a lot of craft things and stuff won’t get done right now.
I wish I would have thought of the weekly pictures, but we do monthly so that is good. I have a notebook and I label it by the month (1 month, 2 month, etc) and write down Peyton’s milestones or something big she did (first trip to Target, zoo, etc). I will use that when I work on her scrapbook. It is neat seeing what she was doing when she was 1 month to what she is doing now at 9 months
I will unfollow you if you DON’T post the pictures every week!!!!!!!
he is just too cute. i LOVE his three week stretching photo! what a doll!
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Henry is so darn cute. I can’t believe it’s been a month already! My schedule is screwy at work for the next few weeks but I will be in touch after that to meet the little dude!!
I love this idea!! It’s amazing to see how much he’s changed from week to week- I think you’ll be glad you did this later on down the line. Maybe once he gets a little older you can cut it back to monthly, but for now, keep it up!
What I think? I think open air peeing should be an Olympic sport!
I think this is such a great idea!
I love this idea! And of course I wouldn’t stop following you if you did them every week – heck, I wouldn’t even stop following if you turned your blog into a big ol’ Henry Fest!!!
I love seeing pics of your sweet little man!
I’d never unfollow you for sharing pics of the newest love of your life. Share away. He is adorable.
That’s a really cute idea! The likes, dislikes and talents are so precious!
Keep Henry pics coming! He’s so adorable, and it’s fun watching him change! I love the like, dislikes and talents – it’s been 23 years since mine was that age – it’s fun reliving!! o:) Oh, and how are the pugs holding up?
Kim – thanks for the mention! Monthly photos were hard work… you are quite the woman for taking on weekly photos!
I love this idea. It’s also a great way to force yourself to record Henry’s milestones. You will appreciate this so much later on. I wish I would have written more down.
Personally, I can’t get enough of that sweet little face. As far as I’m concerned, the more baby pictures, the better!
Baby posts could never deter me from following your posts! I have been reading (stalking) your blog for a very long time, and while my husband and I have yet to take the parenthood plunge, I enjoy reading about others experiences and to see where life will take you beyond the blogging of the pre baby days! I think most faithful readers would feel the same
Emma R.
So cute. He is really plumping up, so I think you can count feeding him as a project
Keep these posts coming. SO CUTE!
I like the way you’re adding little notes with each photo! Great idea. I’ve already fallen off the weekly photo bandwagon – it happened around 4 weeks – for shame! Looking forward to future weekly photos from Henry.
I love love love this!! So cute! I love the little comments and that they are short and sweet.
I especially love the picture of Henry with both of his arms above his head. So funny! Please keep the pictures coming! 
Great idea! I do weekly photos too. Same background every week and in whatever outfit fits my little guy. It really does become part of the routine – you can definitely keep it up. You will be so happy you did too. My guy is 13 weeks and when I look at him he doesn’t look any different than the first week but looking at the photos you can see the weekly change. Its amazing! I’m doing a shutterfly book as I go. I have the template done and each week I just load the next photo. No stressful last minute project 1 week before his first birthday for me!
That’s an awesome project! Before Forrest was born, Jeff wanted to take a DAILY photo and make a flipbook of his first year so we could literally watch him grow. I nixed that idea really quickly
Weekly sounds much more do-able! He is such a sweetheart–honestly, so so so cute–and I especially love the talents. Haha! “Open-air peeing.” He’ll thank you for noting that one someday. I’m so happy for you that you got a cheerful child (unless you’re just putting on a good show for the internet)–Forrest had TERRIBLE colic (so awful, I’m shuddering just remembering how much he screamed, all day and night), and reading the likes and dislikes reminded me of his first few weeks, when friends would hold him, he would scream (of course), and they would say, “What should I do? Should I hold him differently? What does he like?” And I would have to admit that he liked nothing and hated everything. Oh well, at least he grew out of it 
What a sweetie pie. He has changed so much in only a few weeks. Enjoy that precious angel!
So cute! I especially love the “talents”. I have my baby book out and ready to fill in when I have a free moment, which is not very common with three kids! Your post just reminded me of a product that I saw before becoming pregnant that was basically a baby “book” made up of 4×6 index cards in a box. When the baby does something new you simply fill out a new 4×6 card. You can easily slip photos in as they are the same size. If you are feeling ambitious you could make your own cards out of cute scrapbooking paper, or you could use the cards to fill in your baby book at a later date.
Aww! He’s so precious! I love this idea too!
Love it! I did weekly photos with Lizzy too (http://vivalabuenavida.blogspot.com/2010/08/one-to-thirty-two.html)…I can’t remember whether I ever went past week 32 or not! But, I loved it, and I really hope to do it again with number 2!
Amazing how much he has already changed in four short weeks! He’s such a cutie, please don’t stop sharing pictures and stories!
I remember those 1 am staring contest. Spoiler alert… they always win, i swear those littles know how to keep their eyes OPEN! Love the pictures and baby! Congratulations. I do a monthly update post on my family blog and I am so happy I did, I DO NOT remember half of it now and love reading it over. Keeps me motivated to keep doing it at 18 months!
Wow! Lucky you are taking weekly photos as he has changed so much. I had to keep scrolling to the top photos to check how much he has grown. Keep up the amazing work!
more, more, more! i would never un-follow you for more of that cute face!
What a cute idea! And it’s just amazing how much he has changed in the course of one single month. Adorable.
I love the idea. It’s crazy to see how much he changed from just week 2-3!
Yes! I love this!!! I may just end up copying you on this. But maybe monthly because I’m lazy.
I will follow you no matter what you post. But I might love you a little extra if you keep posting more pictures of Henry. That kid is as cute as cute gets!
I love this idea! I’m hoping to come up with something on a monthly basis.
cuuuuuute! and i agree with all the other comments about how amazing it is the change/growth that has happened in only 4 weeks! such a cute lil guy!
Love it! There is no way i could have done every week, I barely got the months done. But if you can do it, you will love every single one of them. He has already grown so much! What a cutie! And that quilt is awesome too!
You can never post enough baby pics!! More More More
Definitely do weekly if you can. I have the worst time getting my DSLR out and taking pictures of Katie. Especially now that I’m back at work. I’ve been meaning to take her 3 month picture for weeks now!
But yes, post away on the pictures and life with a baby. It’s your blog – do what you want!
i love love love these photos!! please post them so you can inspire me to do weekly ones too once my girl gets here!
i did three little facts with my weekly preg pictures, so i’m hoping to do the same with baby ones. haha so will you unfollow me if i kinda copy you?
i hope you are enjoying being a mama and having fun with that little guy!
So cute! I like the brief descriptions. I did not have my act together to do this for my little E … I wish I had!
So cute! This totally reminded me that I need to do my Henry’s first picture – though even though I take a million photos, I think a weekly posed one will be a little much for me, so I’ll be doing the monthly route. Henry looks like he’s grown so much already! Time flies.