i sort of look like Thomas

william has been scanning in a bunch of photos from my parents. i wanted to convert to digital in case something ever happens to the originals. don't want to lose them! thomas is so cute and seeing my baby pics, it is obvious he got the cuteness from william's baby stage b/c i was not a cute baby. i had NO hair until about 10-11 months. not cute! when my hair finally grew in, i finally started looking more like a girl :) here is my dad when he was only 25-26 years old. he only weighed about 115 lbs!

my mom was only 24 in this next picture. at least now, i can see more resemblance of my toddler self to thomas. especially the nose and mouth!


i forgot to mention... i got a chance to babysit my nephew and neice a couple weeks ago. my neice, Ariana, is really really cute. i was renamed auntie poo and she was auntie pee, for the night. she was very helpful with her baby brother - telling me what her mom and dad usually do. i guess i could have re-read the instructions they left, but it was more fun asking ariana. :)

towards the end of the evening, we went upstairs to get ready for bed. she was actually not wanting to brush her teeth - and little 3 year old girls are quite squirmy when they are trying to worm their way around you. she was trying her best to "sneak" out the door, but luckily i have been sneaky myself (as a wayward youth), and managed to keep her in the bathroom and get her teeth brushed, face/hands&feet washed, and night diaper on. luckily i had baby brother asleep by this time.
once she was in bed, she didn't want me to leave. and her other auntie, Debbie, wasn't joking when she said that ariana's room is pitch dark at night. i mean, it is not completely dark, but you can't see anything in front of your face with no night light. so there we were, i was sitting next to her bed and every minute or so, this little dainty hand reaches over and touches whatever part of my face she gets to first and then settles down again. she would also chime in with her sqeakiest little girl whisper saying "you sound like mommy". our voices are pretty similar, just different pitches. ha ha... so funny! and cute too. well, i guess if it was thomas doing that to me every night, it wouldn't be cute, but it sure is cute when it is your neice! :)