All right! Here’s the original of the picture I used for Evil Dolly. Some background: I was in kindergarten and this was my first school picture ever. I remember the photographer kept trying to get me to smile and acted like a complete LUNATIC in doing so. You can tell two things from this picture: 1) It did not work, and 2) I did NOT like him. Look at how wary I am! All his crazed effort for naught, haha! And may we please discuss my BANGS?! WHAT is going on up there?? They look like a wild dog just chewed ’em off. Oh, and the white you see me wearing? THAT is a big, ol’ lacy gramma collar on a hand-me-down dress from my sister. Ugh. I was unhappy in SO many ways on that day. Well, I showed you, everybody. Take that! Here’s an unsmiling, bug-eyed mug for all posterity:
Here’s one of my favorite pictures of my dad as a dad, posing with my sister and me. Not sure which one’s me? Really? I’m the pale Buddha face with the bizarre white sun hat. Wow. That HAT!! Am I The Flying Nun? Am I AMISH?? A little Amish Flying Nun Buddha baby. Ah, how ecumenical of me. All right. Enough of that! Because ….. I’m sorry …. LOOK at my dad! My Lord. I can’t help it. He is simply stunning. I love his expression here, his warmth, how he’s holding my sister close. He looks content and comfortable, doesn’t he? (And you certainly can’t tell from this, where I look like a big blob of bread dough, but I have his eyes, smushed in there somewhere!) Look at how my sister is snuggled up to him, so happy, her little hand on his leg. Oh, my gosh, she looks so much like Piper! The eyes, the mouth! Wow. My dad and sister, so cozy, so sweet, and then … me. It’s killing me that my face looks like a popover. Ah, well. A few years later, my brother joined the picture. And many years later, my cheeks slimmed down nicely.
But, wow. Look at my dad again. That face.
Re: The kindergarten photo – I think you were so wary because somehow you knew, you had some sinking suspicion, that one day the photo would be used for evil.
Re: The bottom photo – That is an awesome family shot.
‘Kay, your Dad’s a hottie… Nice goin’, Pops!
And you’re the cutest kid ever.
I had the bread dough complexion and “cheeks” as well but with mops of curly dark brown hair — cut on an insanely wild bias the night before, I might add.
More. MORE!
//Am I Amish?// hahahahaha
Your dad looks like a movie star. Stunning man. Love his duck-tail hair. So so cool.
What a precious little blonde Alice in Wonderland you were! I have some barely smiling school photos, too. But in my day, they didn’t care if you smiled or not – just get the picture and “Next!”
I’ll repeat: your dad is movie-star hot.
But what is that polka-dot emblazoned thing you’re sitting on? Is it a booster seat? Enquiring minds want to know.
Cullen — HAHAHAHAHAHAA!!
WG — I some some more old family photos. I just need to figure out how to cut them down smaller than these. I mean, they’re awfully BIG!!
red — He hardly looks any different now. It’s amazing. He’s aging freakishly well.
Sal — Yeah. Alice in Wonderland with that headband! Oh, I hated that thing so much. It was too tight on my head and I kept wanting to pull it off. Oh, the vexation of it all! And the thing I’m sitting on — in, actually — is my stroller.
“WHAT is going on up there?? They look like a wild dog just chewed ‘em off.”
Too funny!!!!
Adorable pictures, though! And I concur with pubic opinion…your dad…what a cutie!
I can’t believe how much I have to catch up on… first you were adorbale despite the bangs! You get it from your hot Dad!
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What the??? Santeria, voodoo dolls, village idiot? I missed so much!
Shannon — WHAT was my mom thinking with those bangs? Was she drunk? Mad at me? Suffering from hysterical blindness? I do not know.
Lauren — Yeah, it’s been weird around here…
Now, now – as a mom who’s butchered many a bang, let me just say that they are the hardest thing to cut in the world. Especially on a wiggly little kid.
At least she conquered the temptation to keep evening it up until you looked like Mamie Eisenhower (or Audrey Tatou)!
Sal — Well, that’s true ….