Dear Louis & Sammy...

When I was pregnant with Louis (my first born), I picked up a sweet baby journal called "the First 1000 days" by Nikki McClure. It had cute paper cut illustrations and it wasn't one of those fill in the blanks journal (i felt like i was cheating buying one of those). In fact, I remember wondering if there was enough space in the journal for me to write about my baby to my baby. Well, Louis came along and we didn't sleep for the first six months. Just this week, he wanted me to read "his story" and when I opened up the journal, he asked why the first few pages were blank. I told him that no sleep equaled blank pages! It turns out, filling out the blank pages of the book wasn't that easy. Despite sleeping, motherhood, my full time job, is exhausting. I wasn't lacking material for Louis' story because every day with a child brings out something new and worthy of recording whether it's his first successful knock-knock joke (Louis' accomplishment this week), a little gourmand's plea to try foie gras (highlight of this weekend) or something major like walking ( my baby is finally walking this week!). Louis loves "his story", an often favorite at naptime. With two boys now, I barely can stay awake to kiss my husband goodnight, let alone write. I want Sammy to have "his story" recorded and I want Louis to have a second volume to "the First 1000 days" so this is it. At least I'm sure they will find the illustrations cute as they will mostly be featured in them.