Here's an excerpt from a story we'll be running on Monday:

Virginia Merritt of Newnan, Ga., laments that she has few records from her life past 8 months, including when she started walking.
“I just have what my mom remembers,” she said.

So for Evan, who turns 1 on Sept. 25, Merritt made sure to keep a lists of firsts on the Web site TotSites, including first use of a sippy cup (Aug. 8), first fever (April 8) and first passing of a toy from one hand to the other (Feb. 12) – categories generally not found in traditional, printed baby books.

She also posted sonograms from her pregnancy at Baby Crowd, a site for expecting parents.
But all this documentation may carry a price if parents, in spending so much energy creating and preserving a digital archive, fail to enjoy living the moment.

And will future generations even have time to look through stacks of CDs containing tens or hundreds of thousands of photos, and even if they do, will individual memories become less precious because there are so many?

Now that it's possible to document nearly every minute of every day, how much is too much? Do you feel guilty for failing to adequately photograph or videotape a formative moment in your child's life?

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