I've a box of things like this, hospital bands, tiny outfit, first salt-dough hand print etc, but it's not limited to firsts, it's more a memory box of things from birth until now. It has the balloons I got when he was born in, for example
We've got his hospital bands, cards we were given, hand prints and scan pics together. Will probably add things like his first curl into that but never thought to keep his first dummy, and the bottles all look a bit worse for wear now so not sure I'm fussed about keeping hold of any of them x
I do. It has:
Newspaper from Date of Birth
Additional Newspapers from every day I was in hospital (anticipating her birth!)
2 Car Park tickets from the last two monitoring sessions before induction.
Hospital Bands (ankle / wrist / Mummy's)
Cord Clip & remaining cord (in a sealed bag!! LOL)
Birth & Pregnancy Notes
Congratulations Cards
First pair of socks
First outfit worn
2 vests
First session at Rhythm Time sticker
Waterbabies booklet
Nursery Rhyme sheets
Naming Ceremony Invite (that I handmade)
Naming Ceremony cards
Without routing through it....I think that's it. I have a really hard time letting go of anything so what I have kept is so special to me as I physically can't keep everything she has / has worn.
Yeah we have one too!! In mine is...
First sleep suit,
First proper outfit,
First hats,
First Christmas hat,
Hospital bracelets,
Tram tickets from her first tram journey,
Photos of firsts,
And I've been writing her letters sporadically throughout this first year (my memory is awful so wanted to have hard evidence of when she tarted doing stuff and little things that we've done!). Will be adding in her first shoes, etc.
I haven't done this but I have saved up a lot of firsts, can't figure out what to do with them exactly. I didn't know if I should put them in a scrapbook (some of the items anyway!). Or how to present them in a creative way.
Edit: what do we collect after LO's first birthday?