Flashback Time

I don't know if you've fallen victim to this, but apparently my Dad loves to take pictures of people when they've fallen asleep. He's got quite the collection, going back to college! You should really see some of the one's he's got of Mom when she falls asleep on an airplane, because she tends to sleep with her mouth wiiiide open when she falls asleep sitting up like that. They're hilarious! Just don't let Mom catch you looking at them. Oh boy, does she get mad. And then it turns into "I thought you deleted that?!?" and Dad's mumbling something about "found a backup copy" and I'm getting sent off to bed. Hey! Is it my fault that the pictures are funny?

Well, enough about Mom. I think she reads this sometimes and I don't want to give anything away. And I'm kidding about getting sent off to bed - we've got a cool bedtime ritual that we do absolutely every night. But that's just for me and Mom and Dad (and occasionally a visiting Grandma or Aunt Melinda) so we'll leave it at that.

Because this is about me! I was sick with a cold last week and I fell asleep on the couch one night. Naturally, Dad grabbed his camera. That turned into this week's Sunday Spud pictures, but it also turned into the flashback machine, because the new pictures look just like some of the very first pictures anyone ever took of me.

First Flashback: Sunday Spud #1 vs. Sunday Spud #116. See the resemblance? Granted, in #116 I've got a bit of a rash going on my face. But that's what happens when you've got snot running out if your nose all day long! I think it's pretty cool to see me at two hours old and then at 2 years, 2 months, 13 days, 21 hours old. My hair has changed, but it's still me!
Though where are my eyebrows in the first picture? Did somebody shave them? Sounds like something Dad might have done to somebody sleeping back in college... [Ed: Nope, just drew on people with markers.]



Second Flashback: One of Mom's favorite pictures of me ever from when I was just shy of my three month birthday (top) vs. the picture from this weekend (bottom). You can see I take up a lot more of the couch now, and I don't sleep spread-eagled any more. It's still me though. A lot more of me is leg now!