Pictures can be so very important! When we were waiting for my son to be born, a fellow teacher told me that she wished she had a picture of her birth mom. It was with that info in mind that I took a picture of our son with his birth parents in the hospital (with their permission, of course). We were blessed to be able to be at the hospital for our son's birth and I got to be in the room (dh was asked to leave just minutes before the birth). I didn't even think about getting the nursery photos...but I sure burned up our digital camera getting my own photos! There were some oversights with us, too - the hospital id tags were left on me and my son (which includes the birth mom's name). We've put these in a special place for him when he gets older.
The only thing I didn't get was the paper that included his first footprints - but I did sneak a picture of the footprints (all I really wanted) while it was laying on the counter next to me.
