We looked through some of our photo archives today, videos and stills from when Pearl was a baby. So many photos! I suppose it’s part of the privilege of being first-born, and your parents having a brand-new digital camera (also their first).
It was so sweet, reliving her first attempts to stand up, to walk, helping to unload the dishwasher (we had one then; our living conditions are much more primitive these days), chatting in baby-jargon on her toy phone.
Pearl thought it was hilarious to see herself in babyhood, but the other two were fascinated. Fainjin initially thought it was himself – he’s slowly growing out of thinking all babies are Babess, as we have shown him several of his own baby photos. Babess may have thought it was her in the videos, but who’s to tell? She laughed and tried to talk back to the video-baby, though.
Pearl had more hair than the other two, and a slightly rounder face I think. But they all have the big brown eyes, and often you will see an expression in the photos or video that we still see on her today, and/or on the others.
I also rediscovered some fun I used to have back when there was only one baby, and when she was napping, I had (possibly too much) time on my hands:
