She Really is Mine!!!

My mom brought this picture home from her parents house. Look familiar? It's me when I was about 14 months old. When she showed it to me she asked, "So who does this look like?" I immediately responded, "Oh my gosh (which by the way is a phrase M uses all all the time...), [L] looks like me!"

So, just for comparison's sake, I pulled up a picture of L and did a side-by-side comparison of L and I at about the same age. (L is a little older than I was in the picture). I was so shocked to see how much we look alike. I always assumed from the get-go that L looked like Mr. N's side. Especially after seeing his baby pictures. Not so much anymore! She holds her mouth in the same way I did, but her hair is much whiter. It would have nothing to do with sun exposure either, because at the time my picture was taken I lived in Panama. There's no lack of sunshine down there. The longer I look at the picture though, the more differences I see.

So since I did an L comparison, I decided to do a comparison with M when she was about the age I was. I still see similarities with us, but it's more in the eyes. She has a different mouth. She also has a lot of hair like I did. Oh, for my mother's sake I need to mention my "haircut" in my picture was of my own doing. She made a point of telling me, "I did not cut your hair in that picture. You did it yourself." She made that point because she did use to cut my hair until I was about 10. My dad took me to get my hair professionally cut and the hair dresser kept saying, "Who cut your hair last! They did awful!" I didn't have the heart to tell her it was my mother, so I lied and said I didn't know. Since then I've stuck with hairdressers for hair cuts. I adore my mom though. She hardly ever gets offended and is usually the first one to laugh at herself.

Here's a three-way of me and the girls. I don't know why it thrills me so much to see the similarities between us, but it really does! I was kind of depressed that they didn't look anything like me (or so I thought) and that I was raising miniature Mr. N's (no offense to Mr. N's side...they're fantastic.). But as it turns out I was mistaken!

I love being wrong sometimes!

Don't tell Mr. N I said that...hehehe