Top Ways To Store Your Kids’ Art and the Funny Things They Say.

This is our family… as depicted by one of Ballet Girl’s recent drawings. (In case you can’t tell, I’m the one on the far right.)

It never ceases to amaze me how fast time flies and how fleeting the most treasured moments are.  Both Book Boy and Ballet Girl have said and drawn some hilarious, funny, adorable and sometimes unusually insightful things.  Here are some tips to help you preserve these memories for years to come and a collection of things my kids have said over the last year to make you laugh (and to store online for posterity’s sake). 

Resources to help you (wait a minute …  let’s be real …  for the majority of Dads, to help your wife) organize and store your childrens’ arts, crafts, words and memories:

Ways To Store Your Kids’ Arts and Crafts

• Go to any arts and craft store and buy a colourful folio to store your favourite pieces (similar to what graphic artists use).
• Ask your local pizza place for some new, fresh boxes! Not only can they hold large pictures, crafts and collages, they also stack up neatly while not taking up a lot of space.
• As you accumulate hoards of art, use some as wrapping paper or write a letter on the back then mail them to relatives.
• Scan the art and keep copies online or make a photobook of the collection.
• Go artsy and enlarge your kids art into a museum-quality canvas at LittleKidsBigArt.com.

Ways To Preserve The Things Your Kids Say

• Buy a small notebook for each child from the dollar store, attach a pen to it and keep it handy to jot down funny things your kids have said at the end of the day.
• If you’re tech savvy, purchase a digital audio recorder, have your child say the quote again then save it on your computer to use at their weddings or as blackmail later in life…  Better yet, you could email it to yourself in the future using this free service!
• In your daytimer/Outlook calendar/wall calendar, whenever your child says something of note, write it down on the actual day then don’t forget to save your calendars!

To save some of my kids’ more humourous quotes, I share them with you on this post!  Enjoy!

Book Boy Quotes

• (after one particularly eventful weekend) “Why did this weekend feel so long?”
• “Can you stay up as late as you want in Heaven?”
• (after asking where Book Boy will live when he grows up) “Daddy and me will sleep in one bedroom, Mommy and Ballet Girl will sleep in another room, then my wife and Ballet Girl’s husband will sleep in the last room!”
• (Book Boy to his Grade 1 teacher in response to a request) “Tell you what, I’ll make you a deal.”
• (Book Boy to Incredible Dad) “I love you all the way to the moon and back infinity times infinity!”
• “Daddy, do you want to play Name That Chewn?  It’s a game where I chew a song and you guess what song it is!”
  

Ballet Girl Quotes

• (walking into a room with the most ridiculous collection of dress-up clothes on) “Daddy, do I look like a superhero?”
• “I don’t want to have babies because I don’t want to have a needle.”
• (after finishing her dinner quickly and waiting at the table) “I’m boring!”
• (as we try to convince Ballet Girl to sleep in her own bed) “I’ll sleep by myself when I’m older and I’m married … I’m not married yet AM I?!?”
• (Ballet Girl to Clean Mom) “I love you forever!”
• (Ballet Girl to Incredible Dad) ” Like you say Daddy, there’s always enough, there’s always enough.”

What are some things that your kids have said that you’d like immortalized on the glorious Interweb?  What other tips and tricks do you use to keep your kids words and art?  Look forward to hearing from you!

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