I have been scanning in our old pictures. So many of our photos are fading. I figure it is time to do something else with them. Years ago my mother put together a baby book for each of us and through the years we certainly enjoyed our books. I put together a book as soon as Jaim was born, and added to it regularly, as each child joined us. I glued them and cut them up and did some of that cutesy stuff, that I now know ruined them, sigh
oh well, I took that apart and put them in the "magnetic photobooks." It became known that the pages with adhesive would destroy the photographs and we were encouraged to get them out off of the pages immediately. I tried a couple of other tries at a book form, and then just put them in some order in envelopes, I won't bore you with all my attempts at organizing them. Somehow they got quite disorganized over time, so this has been quite the time consuming thing. Some had a date stamped on the back, some I wrote on, some I have to ask some of you to see if you remember. I will then try and put them in JPeg or tiff form and get them on a CD. It is a bit sad that I was not a more careful photographer, many great memories are barely visible, and so many are out of focus and I only have that one picture of the event. The good news is that we moved so often that if I can identify the house or city I can get them in the right order.
I ran on to this photo of Tyler when we lived in Pittsburgh he was probably about 3 years old. He wore this outfit often, wonder what was in the bag? He took those glasses and took out the lenses. One day just the two of us went shoe shopping (wearing the glasses), there were a few teenage girls in the store. The girls thought he was so cute, they said he looked like Elton John and laughed with joy at this cute little boy. When we left the store Tyler took off the glasses and threw them in the trash, I was shocked and sad about this development. I asked what was going on and he said, "No one is going to laugh at me!" As he walked resolutely away I asked if he was sure, he didn't answer but I got them out and put them in my purse, just in case he changed his mind. He never did!
