Kiddie car, part 2

I found the complement to the earlier Kiddie Car post.




This is my uncle, Kent Cooper, on the kiddie car.

(to see them together, click here)

Baby BrIsaacsons Become Baptized

Hush. I like the alliteration. I'm worn out and silly right now (even sillier than usual)

We have been incredibly busy this week. I have also been taking my computer with me on days that I teach, so Bradley hasn't had access to the photos we scanned last week. Hence, the relative silence.

Here's Bradley's baptism (1976):

He's with his grandparents, William and Eleanor Cook. And he looks a bit like he might have slept through the baptism.

And here's my baptism (1978):

That's my father and mother on the left; my godmother Pam Mackinem is holding me as my godfather, Walter Mackinem, looks on ... I'm wearing the christening gown worn by my great-grandfather something like 100 years prior to my own baptism. I don't look particularly impressed by that in this picture.

Hmm.

Oh well. Happy December, everyone.

Baby Carl, Baby Emily

My maternal grandmother (henceforth known to all as my Farmor) had these two pictures sitting on her TV cupboard for the longest time. The first time my stepmom Kris visited Farmor's house, she took one look at these two pictures and said "Look. It's Baby Carl! And Baby Carl, in color?"

Just for the record, I had very little hair until I was two. And what was there was very, very light blonde - and thus pretty negligible. In the picture of me, I like the naked doll and the pacifier tied to the baby seat -- this is very wise, as I'm sure that I dropped the thing repeatedly.

Centennial Park, Nashville

This seems like a nice comparison set to begin with.




The top picture shows Emily's mother feeding the ducks in Nashville's Centennial Park; the bottom picture shows Emily feeding ducks (same pond, different ducks).* Centennial Park is home to Nashville's Parthenon and is almost always a stop on trips to Nashville, where Emily's grandfather, uncle, aunt and cousin still live.

*You might also notice the great shoes that Emily's dad is wearing in the bottom photo.