The Beauty Around Us

My First Portrait

By Linda G. on September 25, 2009

While going through Mom’s photographs, I came across a book entitled “Log-O’-Life”. The pages in this book are meant to record an individual’s complete life history. Inside this book I found tiny pieces of note paper, on which were written dates and comments. It appears Mom was diligent in keeping a record during my first year of life. However, these notations never found their way into my “Log-O’-Life”. I will share a couple of Mom’s notations, which I found humorous. Mom wrote from my point of view. In other words when Mom wrote “I” she meant me, not herself.

I was born on Thursday February 23, 1956 at 8:47 A.M.  I weighed 6 lbs 6 1/2 oz. and was 20″ long.  Some people were disappointed.  I wasn’t very pretty.  My hair was ugly too.  Some said I had brown hair other people said it was red.  I guess it is a sandy color.  Its got that red cast alright.

A day later, Mom wrote:

Grandma and others didn’t think I was the same baby.

My appearance must have gone from “not very pretty” to pretty during my first 24 hours on this earth. 🙂

There was a notation, too, on May 17th, in which Mom wrote that I had my picture taken. Here is that picture, my very first portrait. I was almost 3 months old.