The first year is the one that goes too fast to hold. One day they fit in the crook of an arm; twelve months later there's a candle, a cake, and a room full of people who can't believe how big they've gotten. The First Year Block keeps a piece of that year in something you won't have to remember to hold onto.

Made from birch and engraved on every side, each block carries both the baby who arrived and the one turning one: their name, the weight and length from the day they were born, the year, and a single number — one — that won't be true again.

You'll add the details that were theirs from the very start — the pounds and ounces, the inches, the morning they came — alongside their name and a note written just for them, and we engrave each face by hand.

It finds its place on a shelf or a nursery dresser, and it stays. Long after the first cake and the photos of frosting-covered hands, the keepsake remains — a quiet record of the year a baby became a one-year-old.

Given by parents or grandparents, this personalized first birthday block turns a baby's first birthday into an heirloom.