I very rarely make personal posts involving our daughter Essley here on the blog, but this is one of those times I'm making an exception. Some of you may remember a project we did in her first year that we called '52 Weeks of Essley.' We took a photo of her once a week, for an entire year, starting with the day she was born. At the end of the year, I compiled all of the images into a slideshow video (you can see it here). It ended up being a really cool experience (although I'll be upfront and tell you the weekly pictures got pretty old by the end), and we loved getting to see how much she changed in a year via the video.
We decided to carry the project into a second year, but this time we just took a photo a month, and I didn't make a video. I still thought it would be fun to put all of the photos together in one space though, which you can see above. It makes my heart seriously swell to see how much she changed in her second year too. Man, do I love this kid.
I'm not sure if we'll do the weekly pictures for baby boy or just do once a month for him. I'll feel a little guilty not doing the same for him as we did for his sister, but like I said, those once weekly pictures felt like a little bit of a chore by the end. Regardless, we'll do something. I can't wait to see how he changes and grows as well.
Have any of you done something similar with your little ones?
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She's getting cuter each month and I love her smile!
ReplyDeleteShe is so cute and I love this project! It's amazing to see how they grow.
ReplyDeleteShe's such a peach! Hopefully you can manage the weekly photos for Little Dude, too, because I imagine it would be fun to compare.
ReplyDeleteThose eyes and dimples...such a doll! Both the weekly and monthly shots will be so fun to look back on!
ReplyDeleteOh wow! When you put the photos together you can really see how fast she grew. She is such a cutie :)
ReplyDeleteI can't believe how much she has grown, and she looks so much like you Melissa! Such a sweet idea! I took a lot of pictures of Lila when she was baby, but none of them are good enough quality to do something like this with!
ReplyDeleteI love this so much and look forward to seeing baby boy too!
ReplyDeleteshe is seriously the cutest. i can't wait to see what your little man is going to look like! eekk!
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