In these times of hyper-documentation, parents often end up with thousands of digital images, most of which remain on their computer hard drive only to appear sporadically added to a baby album or randomly during a screen-saver slideshow. Poor poor images. Here are a few ideas for turning your everyday baby photos into a collection you can showcase and enjoy.

Get Scrappy
Have you seen the Celebrate Everyday Life photo book template? You will be amazed at how even the blurriest and most ordinary pictures can look intentional and artistic in this digitally designed photo book template created by scrapbooking celebrity and life artist Ali Edwards. Have a look at Ali’s own Celebrate Everyday Life book and read Ali’s suggestions for the best photos to use. You’ll rediscover the beauty and vibrancy of strewn toys, mashed carrots and that row of pacifiers drying on the kitchen counter in this 21st century baby album.

Grow Up
Babies are like a blank canvas—so full of possibility and potential. And parents daydream about the wonderful things their little ones will accomplish when they grow up. Look through your baby photo collection and examine the funny poses and postures you’ve captured. Is your baby holding a cell phone? Maybe she’ll be a trader on the stock market. Is baby banging pots and pans? Maybe he’ll be a chef. Or a rock star. The sky is the limit. Pull those photos together to create a "When I Grow Up" photo book. Jessi Weithman did one for each of her boys, Levi and Mack. The photos are adorable and the future appears to be bright for these two brothers.

Make a photo book.