Do you remember you kid at different ages?

[bunch]

For the life of me, I can't remember my kids at any age other than they are right now. I have pictures that remind me of certain events, but generally I can only imagine them as how they currently are. Is this normal? It's sad.

[Deleted]

I'm the same. Video works better than photos for jogging my memory, but on the whole, I live in the now. We don't take that many photos/videos, so most of their life is doomed to be forgotten.

[Deleted]

DS is only two but I remember him from newborn on up. I remember our marathon nursing sessions clearly, my complete freak outs when we started solids, when he took his first steps, when we sleep trained. All that stuff. Ido expect it to fade as he gets older though.

[zeewifeandmama]

Sort of... Videos and pictures jog my memory for sure!

[yellowbrkrd]

I have a terrible memory in general. But I do take a ton of photos and video.

[Sloane]

I remember moments and events really clearly and my feelings around them, but I don't remember her looking any different than she does now. I look at pictures of her and can't believe she looked that small, or whatever.

[timorousbeastie]

DD is only 2.5 months, but she's already to the point where, when I look at her pictures from in the hospital, I can't believe she was so tiny.

[sent]

Sort-of. I am trying really hard to take it all in and write down the memories in her book. When I look at her pictures and see the changes she has made in 4 short months, I like to say that when she was born and came home, she was teeny-tiny. Now she's just lil'.

[moopoint17]

I use to have a great memory before kids. Now I'm lucky if I remember what they were like 2 weeks ago. I can recall facts about what we did but not necessarily how they were / how I felt about them.

I guess the moral of all of this is that I should take more videos.

[undecidedowl]

Nope. But I write a lot down and take pictures.

[Willis Jackson]

No. DH and I will watch old videos and be like, "Did his voice really sound like that? Did he really look like that?" I watch videos of when they were babies and I can't believe how boring they were.

[BaliHai]

L is only 4.5 months, but I was JUST saying to H the other day that I don't remember her as a newborn. Like I look at photos and obviously know she was that teeny, had that much hair, looked the way she did, etc, but as far as actually remembering, say, holding and interacting with her when she was that small? No. And I don't like it.

[mswax]

Not really, but I keep a weekly-ish blog with what everyone is up to. That plus the videos tell a pretty good story.

I'm pretty dedicated to documenting the boys childhood because I feel like so much of mine was lost when my mom passed away.

[arch01]

sort of. and i've been awful at taking videos, i need to do it more.

[turtletop90]

No, it's weird. And I'm glad I'm not the only one!