The Challenge...

Sarah Jane was perhpas the most photographed baby ever for her first two years. Or maybe not ever, but certainly highly photographed. We recorded everything - anyone who visited, anyone who held her, anything she did, we got a photo. I was pretty sure (and I was right) that a second child would occupy quite as much of my hard drive. What to do for that second child to make sure we remembered who she was and what she did as she made it through this exciting first year? Then Aunt Ellie sent me a YouTube link to a funny video of a baby who had a picture taken every day of his first year in the same spot, with a big piece of paper showing what day it was. That would be fun! But Dave quickly (and rightly) vetoed it as crazy. But it got me thinking - how could we remember every single day of Anna's first year? I'm sure by the time Anna can read this there will be something else new and fun to occupy us but right now we are occupied by Facebook, Flickr, and all things social networky. And we love to post and read our "status" - a short, note on what we are doing or feeling at the moment. The best ones attempt to be witty ("Abby is on the night shift, following a day shift, following a night shift... when does my overtime pay kick in?") but the majority are really, really mundane and mostly pretty boring ("Abby needs some coffee") Despite the boring-ness, I find them fascinating - like sitting on a windowsill watching a moment in someone's life.



So, here's the challenge: Can I post a status update for every (or nearly every) day of Anna's first year? I'm pretty sure no one will find all of these, or even most of these, interesting but perhaps the compilation of the full year will be fun for Anna to read some day. She won't appreciate it until she has her own babies but then the daily sleep, eat, poop struggle might be pretty interesting!



I will do my best to illustrate with pictures and maybe even videos when we have them and I will strive for witty but am pretty sure we will settle for mundane.