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We have seen some of our faces as older adults now how about a baby pic. I will start. You can see that my attitude was already becoming well formed.

My attitude too
My Dad built that castle for me. I was a very lucky little girl (4th birthday).

I haven't changed much....

So the nose issue was congenital.

TPFKA@W wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 10, 2020 3:26 am

So the nose issue was congenital.

Sort of... I was a difficult birth for my mother. The doctor who delivered me was having trouble so he eventually pulled me out by the nose.

Joe Guy wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 10, 2020 4:07 am

TPFKA@W wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 10, 2020 3:26 am

So the nose issue was congenital.

Sort of... I was a difficult birth for my mother. The doctor who delivered me was having trouble so he eventually pulled me out by the nose.

He used his nose to pull you out? That's an interesting approach.

TPFKA@W wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 10, 2020 4:12 am

He used his nose to pull you out? That's an interesting approach.

My mother's doctor called in sick that day and an ENT filled in for him. My mother knew there was something wrong when the doctor told her to say Awwwwww...

Maybe she misheard and it was Ewwwwwww?

Caught me playing jacuzzi

I'd be hard pressed to find "baby pics" of me. I don't know where I'd even start to look. My brother and sister tell me they have very few family photos.

My father owned an Eastman/Kodak bellows camera which he mostly used for generic photos. He took very few family photos. He did, however, win a local photography contest with a picture of my older brother, sitting on the door stoop, playing with an empty milk bottle. He won a framed, blow-up, of the photo, and a year supply of 120 film.

If my mom tried to use "his" camera he'd yell at her telling her it was too technically advanced for a woman to use.

Quite a few of his photographs contained a blurry shot of one of his fingers.

Yup, I was!

BoSoxGal wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 10, 2020 9:15 pm

Yup, I was!

Who is that in the photo sitting on Santa's lap, as you pose in your car carrier?

This is a short (85 sec.) bit from a bunch of old family home movies my Uncle Dick gave to my brother a few years ago; I guess I was about one year old in this? My brother converted them to digital files of various resolutions (he's a software engineer, so he's wizardly that way) and put them up on YouTube but the settings are such that "playback on other websites has been disabled" so all I can do is post the link to watch it there:

Yes, those are actually 2 black bear cubs right near the end. Apparently they belonged to my Uncle Bill; I think they probably came from Michigan's U.P. but I know nothing about the how and why of his having them.

RayThom wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 10, 2020 10:09 pm

BoSoxGal wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 10, 2020 9:15 pm

Yup, I was!

Who is that in the photo sitting on Santa's lap, as you pose in your car carrier?

Good eye! That’s my older brother. I was born in late November - just a couple of days before Thanksgiving in my birth year - so in this photo I am just a few weeks old and it is Christmastime - note the plastic holly around the base of the lamp.

I’m envious of folks who have movies from their youth - my mother and uncle have some, but there was no video camera in my family when we were young.

Econoline wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 10, 2020 10:18 pm

... This is a short (85 sec.) bit from a bunch of old family home movies my Uncle Dick gave to my brother a few years ago; I guess I was about one year old in this?

Hearkening back to yesteryear.

You can't go home again.

Is that a genuine "Taylor Tot Convertible Baby Infant Nursery Stroller Walker Push Cart" that you're driving? At the age of 20 months I found myself in one of those for a few months, nursing a broken leg after a girl next door pushed me off a 3' high stood. (No railings required back then.)

Econoline wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 10, 2020 10:18 pm

This is a short (85 sec.) bit from a bunch of old family home movies my Uncle Dick gave to my brother a few years ago; I guess I was about one year old in this? My brother converted them to digital files of various resolutions (he's a software engineer, so he's wizardly that way) and put them up on YouTube but the settings are such that "playback on other websites has been disabled" so all I can do is post the link to watch it there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIxc1SND3Y0

Yes, those are actually 2 black bear cubs right near the end. Apparently they belonged to my Uncle Bill; I think they probably came from Michigan's U.P. but I know nothing about the how and why of his having them.

This is great. We had a house fire when I was a kid and only have 2 surviving baby pics.
I love the baby balancing act.

I have no idea what that contraption was called, Ray, but I noticed that in the first shot that showed me in the thing, I was sitting in it on the front porch at the top of a ~7-step stairway with no close adult attention at all.

So far as I know, the hour or so of (16mm? 8mm?) movies that my brother got from my uncle not long before my uncle died are the only extant movies of anyone in my family from around that time. Somebody at some time transferred the movies to VHS, and my brother actually shot the video you see with his phone, from the screen of my uncle's TV. I don't have any idea who shot the movies, but the fact that they were taken right around the time of my Uncle Ed's wedding gives me a hunch that somebody knew a professional photographer who either shot the movies or lent that somebody the camera. (And wow!—color home movies in 1947 or 1948? That alone makes them pretty damn fancy!)

RayThom wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 10, 2020 10:51 pm

Econoline wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 10, 2020 10:18 pm

... This is a short (85 sec.) bit from a bunch of old family home movies my Uncle Dick gave to my brother a few years ago; I guess I was about one year old in this?

Hearkening back to yesteryear.

You can't go home again.

Is that a genuine "Taylor Tot Convertible Baby Infant Nursery Stroller Walker Push Cart" that you're driving? At the age of 20 months I found myself in one of those for a few months, nursing a broken leg after a girl next door pushed me off a 3' high stoop. (No railings required back then.)

Edited: 'stoop'... damn dyslexia, and spell check didn't help, either.