Pictures from 1997

Hi! I've been such a horrible blogger lately. I have several completed projects, and I've taken pictures of them, but I haven't gotten around to uploading them yet. Hopefully soon! I finally bought buttons for my baby sweater, and it's finished. Then there are those scarves I made.... There is just too much going on. It's still hard to believe that this is my Senior year. I have quite a bit of school work to do each day, but I don't have a math class this year, which is wonderful. The other day I learned how to use our scanner. I went a little crazy. Once I got started, it was hard to stop. Here are a few pictures from 1997. :)

Baby Zach and me. :)

Jamey and me.

Early knitting! Age 5.

Me, Jamey and Zach

Wisdom from days gone by.

One thing Mom was always very good about was recording things in our baby books. Now the boys and I each have a book with pages of things we said when we were little. I thought I'd share some of mine with you. :) (Keep in mind that all of this is written from Mom's perspective.)

First sentence at 14 months - "Belt, eat it."

17 1/2 months
-"Nanny, read it to you again....lap" ("you" means me.)
-"Sit counter too. Dry hair with Mommy."
-"Where are you, pacifier?"

19 months
-When asked what she was holding, "Aunt Julie's keys. I sure do like 'em."

24 months
- When looking at her new birthday dresses, she (having heard me the day before say something similar) said, "We'll wait 'til the weather gets cold before we wear those. Those dresses are the cutest ones I've ever seen!"
-Lindy and I were playing in her room and she said, as she pulled out her little pink new testament, "Are you going to look in your very own Bible and see if God and Jesus put the baby in Mommy's tummy?" so she opened up her Bible and turned through severyal pages and then looked up with excitement and said, "Well, I think He did!"

36 months
- (Dialogue between her stuffed animals...) This particular time, she was pretending her big teddy bear was the daddy and the little one was the baby and the daddy's hand was rubbing the baby's head and I overheard her say, "'She's looking pretty for a baby', says the daddy, smiling at her with a little brown smile as he touches her head with his fuzzy little hand."

38 months
-"Jamey needs those toys to keep him occupied."
-"I believe Jamey is indifferent about those toys I brought for him."
-"I got Jamey some splendid toys, I tell ya.
-"You'd better wash me up at once!"

Age 4
-At bedtime, Lindy said first, "Would you like to lay down with me?"... then later, "Would you like to rub my hair?" and after awhile, "Would you like to leave now?"

Age 5
- "I know something I love more than a library book that I don't ever have to give back... you!"

Age 6
- When bobbing for apples, "I get to get apple baptized!"

Treasure in a drawer.

Today Mom happened to mention that she had one of my old dishcloths in a drawer upstairs. She's had it in there for years, and I didn't know it! By old, I mean I made it when I was about 7. I thought all of the old ones had been either sold or given away! I'd say my knitting has improved ever so slightly. :) Here's a picture, on top of the cloth are my very first pair of knitting needles, the ones I learned to knit with.