Babies before baby

Jayde and I scanned some of our baby photos for a baby shower (thanks Katie and Louise for printing and framing them!) - Here are a few of them...

This is Jayde in her special Japanese outfit from her grandfather, who was fluent in Japanese and taught us both a lot about eating sushi.

Jayde liked to drive around in her pedal car - the first of its kind in the neighborhood. Just to rub it in, Jayde wanted all the other kids to know she was happier than they were, too.

Jayde is very very very happy about her new hat.

This is Jayde and her brother Peter playing around outside the family home/business. That's an oil drum - one of many from the family oil distribution business. This is the kind of place kids love to play.

This is Jayde and her mom. This is what everyone else but the kids wants the outside to look like.

This is Jayde and her grandmother. And believe it or not, Jayde's hair naturally stood up straight like a mohawk. That's just what happens with Chinese baby hair. Maybe it will happen for Baby Tiger, too.

This is still my favorite kind of outfit for formal photographs. Ask me some time and I'll show you my overall shorts/nothing else photos from last year. Smokin.

This is me and my dad. I can't wait to take a photo like this with my son.

In this photo, I appear to be chewing on my mom's shoulder after having a bath. From my mom's calm expression, this must have been taken before I had any teeth.

Wow. This picture tells a thousand words about the times in which I grew up. This is still my favorite car in the whole world. And its a great bumper sticker, too.

This is the closest my sister Allison got to smiling for the photographer - most of the photos from this session feature Allie in increasing states of obvious displeasure, and me with an increasingly forced smile.

Why don't I wear purple pants any more? I'm already planning my next formal portrait - purple overall shorts with the pattern of this shirt. And nothing else. Hott!