Find a nice baby records book is very difficult in Kuwait, most of them are either too small and have just over 20 pages, others are full of pages that you don’t end up using and can’t fill in because they are all about holidays which we don’t celebrate in the GCC region. We went to all book stores, That el Salaseil, Jareer, a few random ones in Hawalli and Salmiya and couldn’t find the perfect book. We also looked in different children’s and toy stores but still nothing that really caught our attention and Mama was very keep on getting one for Banoota as it would be fun to do and fun for her to read when she’s older. We finally settled for a book by Mamas & Papas which we didn’t like at all surprisingly enough since we love their store so much and they generally have things which are of amazing quality so to find something we don’t like is rare.
A few months later while we were looking around Jareer which we tend to do a lot Mama stumbled across a book by Annabel Karmel called Baby’s First years which we love even though they have a page about christmas. It was so much better than the Mamas & Papas one that we originally had purchased. Here is one of the pages from Annabel Karmel’s book which is obviously not Banoota’s since her book is already full and we can’t show for personal reasons.
As we became more active in yahalooo, after we finished filling in Banootas book we found Reminiscence, an amazing baby books that is perfect. It is the perfect length, quality, has the perfect details we need and looks really nice too.
We love how they have customised the books, it just adds that something a little special when you see your child’s name on something. We remember we got a gift from Kid’s Puzzle and the wrapping paper had Banootas name written all over it and we fell in love with the gift before seeing it. The gift turned out to be just as great as the wrapping paper.
The books are available in two colours and cost 25 KD including of the name printing.
The best part about them is that they are customised to fit our lifestyles! Like there are no pages about christmas, christening, Halloween and all the other holidays which we don’t celebrate here. There are special pages about Eid and one of our all time favourites is the page which is about the first “Zwara” which is a day to remember indeed.
And here are some more detailed pictures.
If you’re interested and would like to order a book or know more about them, you can contact them at +965 99866768 or e-mail them info@reminiscence.me They also have an instagram account which is “_reminiscence_”