so few photos.....so sad:(

[alexsmum]

decided to enter my ds2 into the calpol competion tonight and started looking through photos on the computer and it just struck how few pictures we have of him.there was not a single one there i could have entered.
then saw hub2dees amazing pictures of his beautiful daughter and just feel like i have misssed out on so much of ds's life.we didn't get him on video until he was ten days old- we have about an hour of video of him and he's 2! our ds1 was videoed and photographed loads.
poor old ds2he's going to think he was adopted when he's older.
new resolution-start carrying the camera around with me.

Unfortunaley its all new and amazing with the 1st the second is to but in a different way and besides when your're busy looking after 2 its diffcuilt to be david bailey at the same time. If he's a boy Ihe probably won ca when he's older I don't think boys/men care about things like that so much! Have fun taking lots of pics from now on!

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same here with our second dd - have been trying to make up for it - we have so many more photos of dd1, so I take camera everywehre, or alwasy have it to hand in the house
it's not too late though!

hey don't worry about it - I am the FIFTH child in my family and there is ONE yes ONE photo of me as a baby. I like to think that's because everyone was too busy actually spending time with me rather than taking pictures.
the memories are the important thing, and they don't get lost or damaged....

(Thanks for the compliments on my photos, alexsmum).

I do worry if a second baby would have anything remotely approaching the quantity of pictures of Camille. I doubt it very much.

FWIW, we don't even have a video camera; I don't enjoy operating them nor editing the resultant output, nor gathering people together to watching 15 minutes of so-so material... with photos, I can e-mail them or show them to people and it takes 30 seconds. Doubtless I will get one at some point though.

we literally have hours of video of ds1 lying under a babygym or even just asleep! we were such proud parents! but we literally just did not have time to do it with ds2 and every time we did get the camera out, ds1 would jump in front of it and start performing!

oh and carla- there are virtually no pictures of me and the boys.i hate having my pic taken as i am least photogenic person in the whole world.
A while back i had a bit of a health scare and started stressing that if anything did happen to me , the boys wouldn't remember what i looked like. Since then i've let dh take some photos but not many.

We do not have a video camera. What I find upsetting is that my parents do have one and always brought it when they came to visit when we just had DS1. Now they don't bother.

I have a pathetically huge pile of baby photos of DS1 that show a barely distiguishable face poking out of a pile of blankets. I suspect I'd learnt sense by the time DS2 and DS3 came along; I have fewer pictures of them but those I have are of a higher quality.

similar thing here with the grandparents. dh's dad is really good with a camera and when ds1 was younger he took some fab pictures.now he lives abroad and only sees ds's every 6 months maybe? so again-losing out on pics there too.

There's hardly any of me with my babies either I put on so much weight that I can't stand the photos and it just ruins the whole photo if i'm in it so I let my husband pose with them. Anyway children find baby photos embrassing when their older so least the youngest will be spared that!

One of my friends with 4 kids told me that her third child recently asked her if he could see photos of him when they came home from hospital after he was born. He had been looking at baby photos in their albums. She realised that she had none so she dug out an old one of her first ds1(she had LOADS of those,) and said that was him - he didn't seem to notice lol (Have to say most newborns do look fairly similar to each other so quite easy to do)

I think this is par for the course. As you have more children you take proportionately less photos I think.