The 2nd album was filled with messages from important people in my sons life.  About a week before his birthday I sent out an email to family and friends asking for them to email me a birthday message for him.  Then I took the emails and printed them on white paper and cut them out.  Can you even imagine what that is going to mean to my oldest son when he is 30?

 I also printed out a bunch of quotes about growing up and printed those on white paper and included one quote per page. For decoration I used some cute little stickers that looked like stamps that all had pictures of little boys on them.  Here are the quotes I used:

“We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves”
 May Lamberton Becker

“A grownup is a child with layers on.”
 Woody Harrelson quotes (American Actor, b.1961)

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau

Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.
Walt Disney

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Abraham Lincoln

We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up.
Christopher Morley

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.”
 Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

“Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.”
 Fran Lebowitz quotes (American Writer and Humorist, b.1950)

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
 George Sand (1804-1876)

"A man loves his sweetheart the most; his wife the best, but his mother the longest."
 ~ Irish Proverb

A wise son maketh a glad father
~ Proverbs 10:1

Children make your life important.
Erma Bombeck

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
Doug Larson

There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Graham Green

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
Hodding Carter

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Henry David Thoreau

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

The Bill Cosby quote was his favorite!  He LOVES Bill Cosby and when he saw it he said "WOW, you got Bill Cosby to send me a message!"  LOL  We all got a good laugh out of that!  I ended up getting a lot of great messages sent to me from friends and family all over the United States!  I know these are both books he will treasure his entire life.  I think this was a great way to document and celebrate his leaving childhood and entering the teen years!

The added bonus of doing these albums is it was a trip down memory lane for me as I worked to prepare them!

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