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So, these are the few pictures I have of me as a kid.  The pictures here are the ones I know about - there might be some out there in my family's picture books that I haven't found yet... but if I have it, its likely here.

Here's me, as far back as I can go... which is to about 5 hours old, according to the note written on the picture.
 

This is me at 5 months.

This was back in the day of "Colorization"... It was a bit expensive to get a COLOR picture, so folks would use the old method of using manually drawn colors on a black and white negative to get the coloring effects...

I guess the photographer didn't remember I have blue eyes... :)

I guess I was a pretty cute kid... I wonder what happened as I got older?!?

I remember this horse, but I remember it as being a toy my sister played on... I'm smiling, so I guess I liked it, but I'd put my money on the notion that she liked it a LOT more than I did!  She LOVED that thing!

I'm a bit over 2 in these pictures... Tammy's age dates the picture pretty accurately, I think. 

I remember some of the items int he pictures -- the wagon, and the drum set, even the Greyhound bus under the wagon, but not the day - I was a bit too young, I guess.

This is the only picture I know of that has me with my dad.

I think this picture was taken in San Bernardino California, where my dad had a job with a shoe factory, repairing sewing machines.  He did that back in Maine, also, and moved out to California for the sun, adventure, and that sort of thing.

For some reason, I remember this "Star Trek" peg desk... it had little colored pegs you could place in holes on the board.  I thought it was the coolest thing!  You notice in the pictures that there's still gifts to be unwrapped... seems I was DONE once I had the desk!  =]

Playing with this desk is one of my earliest memories, only I remember myself being older than this... apparently, my memories go back a bit farther than I thought, although its likely I had the desk until I was around 4 or so, when the rest of my 'early' memories happened.

The TV really surprises me -- my mom was VERY against having one, as far back as I can remember.

The caption written on this picture says "Birthday 4 years old".  I don't look very happy, though.- especially for a birthday!  I still get a thrill out of them!  =]

You can't hardly find lolipops like these anymore... but they were sure good!

I'm at my grandfather's place, during the time when he was building out a new room on his house.  Of course, he was doing that for about 10 years or so, but I think I'm about 4 in the picture.  It was for an Easter, I think.

Tammy dropped hers, and I shared mine with her.

I'm up at my Grandfather's here, before he cleared away the brush to make his yard larger. 

I remember the sweater, too... it was WAY too small for me, but I really liked it, so I kept wearing it until it got caught in the ringers of the washer (not many folks remember those, I'll bet!), and it ripped apart.  It was a very traumatic day, one I'm only now recovering from.  =]

My Cousin and I were like brothers... we did just about everything together.

This is shortly after my grandfather set up a swing set at his house.  It was up on the hill.  My cousin Ray is to my left, and Lisa is to the left of him, and up on the slide is my sister Tammy.

I remember this day... it was a pretty big deal.  My Grandpa had been talking about it for a while, and finally he promised that the next Saturday we went up there, he'd have it ready.  We waited all week to back up there, and sure enough, he had it ready. 

All of us remember that swing set.

This was our first new bike, and it was COOL.

It was fall, and the local "Giant" store (sort of like a discount K-Mart) was dumping its inventory, and my Grandpa got us one.

Eventually, we each had one at some point.  They both looked the same, as I remember.

This picture shows the veins that I had across my forehead when I was little  I had two of them, and sometimes they'd be REALLY be prominent!  They got less noticeable as I got older.

We went there pretty much every Saturday, and it was something - especially in the summer - that I looked forward to.  Even once I got into High School, I'd still want to head out there; its a tradition I didn't outgrow.

The "Clark Kent" swirl was in place, the dimples were set... and I was all ready for school.

Here's me as a Kindergartener...

 

These two pictures are from Camp Ellis... the roll of film laid for probably 15 years in a drawer before we found and developed it...

Second Grade

I seemed to always get my cheeks pinched, and everyone mentioned my dimples...

When I was in second grade, my mom hosted a Halloween Party for the neighbor kids, and the kids at church.  It was the funnest Halloween I remember growing up.

When it came to bobbing for apples, me and my cousin Ray had a plan - grab it by the stem, and you won't get your face wet... my mom, however, had trimmed the stems down on us, and we spent what I remember to be HOURS trying to get them! =]

"...  I am Legion for we are many  ..."  My mom had a story set up with a skull that blinked when it "talked", which was a reel to reel my mom slowed down to make sound scary, and a light switch my Uncle rigged for her to use.  It scared the dickens out of me, though, and it was scarier because it was a Bible story (Mark 5).

Me and my cousin at my Grandpa's again.  We were like brothers in a lot of ways.

Here's pretty much the whole crew, playing with a wagon.  Lisa, the 'other cousin' stopped coming up to my Grandparents except for very rare occasions, so most of the time it was just the 4 of us.

Easter
For some reason, my memories of this day are quite vivid. Me and Tammy got a big basket of stuff, and we went outside and took pictures with the cats. I don't know why I remember it, but I do...

4th Grade.
Note the button... right up to the top. That stuck with me through High school. It wasn't until a couple of years after I joined the army that I stopped doing that.

I'm 8 or 9 or so - before "Nerd Mode" because I don't have glasses.  I'm on the left, sharing a song book with Bertha, who older than me by 4 years or so and who I thought was THE bomb at the time.

I think we're singing Christmas Carols or something.

Nerd mode begins
I remember posing for this school picture... I really thought I looked GOOD!

Glen Cove
We went on a church-sponsored summer trip to Northern Maine... I had a good time!

It was during this trip that I really got hooked on taking pictures... I got a camera for the trip... I had taken

Me and Wendy, the pastor's daughter, in a canoe at Glen Cove.

We had a missionary come to our church who served on a Native American Reservation, I think in the Southwest, which would likely mean Navaho.  He had all the kids line up for a picture with a head dress and a handful of arrows.

Believe it or not, while my dad was Italian, my mom is as much Native American as she is  French.  We're Micmac's, although I don't look it nearly as much as my cousins do.

This should 'prove' to everyone that I haven't been "gravitationally challenged" my whole life.

This is about a year and a half before I graduated.  I still didn't weigh 100 pounds - when I DID graduate, I weighed 114 pounds.

This, at one point, is everyone who went to my church growing up.  I used a tripod and a timer to take the picture.

My Sister is in the front row on the left, my mom is the shortest person out there =], and I'm on the right as you look at the picture.  The pastor is in the blue suit, and Mr Richardson, the only elder, is next to him.

One of the last "Pre Army' pictures that I have.  It was taken by my grandmother, Nana Cole.  I visited her before I left for Basic Training for the National Guard.

She always made me take my glasses off before she took a picture -- even when she used my camera.  It was her "thing", I guess.

More to come... as I find 'em!

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