June 01, 2004
A Year of Alex
I am a member of a little group of gals I met on line during my pregnancy who all have babies born (or at least, due!) in June, 2003. To use board lingo: We started chatting on the TTC boards back in September/October of 2002 as we were all finding out about our BFPs. (TTC=Trying to conceive, BFP=Big Fat Positive pregnancy tests. It took several weeks of reading to get a hang of all the abreviations, believe me!). We decided to do a little birthday gift round robin for the kiddos' birthdays, just so we could connect with each other IRL (in real life) as well as on the Internet.
Alex's birthday buddy (screen name: Weedie) is mom to Joel and an engineer by trade who dabbles in graphic design when she isn't training for marathons. She spent an enormous amount of time making Alex's gift: a collage of pictures from his first year month by month, culled from this site. Even the border is based on a picture of the border we painted in his bedroom.
In the past year and a half, this group of gals has really become my friends. The thought and care that went into this collage is amazing, and something only a true friend would bother to do. Thanks, Weedie, and all of the June 2003 Mommies who have shared the trials and tribulations of pregnancy and raising a baby with me!
