OK, this is the last batch of photos from my baby photo album. Scanning is tedious and there's no way I'm going to scan everything.
This was taken in the summer of 1980 at my great-grandma's farm in Clarion. My cousin Jenny was helping me feed a lamb in the front yard:
Now we'll fast-forward to Halloween that year. Halloween has always been just about my favorite time of year (and it's also my mom's birthday) and when I was a kid we always made a big deal out of it. This was the first year I was allowed to help with carving the pumpkins:
I was Max from Where the Wild Things Are, my favorite book back then:
My birthday!
Visiting a park in my mom's home town, Lake Forest, IL:
Christmas 1980:
Opening my Fisher Price circus train:
My "Computer Fire Engine," hahaha! Yeah, right. That's overselling it JUST A TAD. More like "Slowly-bumping-into-stuff-and-then-going-the-other-way-until-the-wheels-are-gunked-up-with-carpet Fire Engine." High-tech:
I got my own table and chairs!
Check out my Christmas loot. That wallpaper was loud, but it was covering walls that had been covered with automotive gloss black paint(!!):
Christmas dinner:
For some reason there are only a couple of photos from 1981. My mom used to take me to Hollywood Beach along Lake Michigan, just a few blocks from our flat:
Both of these photos are from Memorial Day 1981:
A few photos from 1982... This one was taken in Des Moines at the Botanical Gardens around Easter, I think. My cousin Jenny is sitting next to me:
We went camping with my Uncle Al and Aunt Carol and my cousins Matt and Chad in the summer of 1982 in Tomah, WI. That's me and Matt with my parents in the picture:
There were only two other boys in my neighborhood; one was a few years older than me (and he was way too cool for me) and the other was a few years younger (he was a toddler) and all the other kids nearby were girls... so nearly all of my friends were girls:
My Aunt Anna made this lion rug for me that year (I think it was a Christmas gift):
There's kind of a weird gap in my baby book, but here's some photo documentation of my existence in 1983. This was from Halloween:
My E.T.-themed birthday! Not sure why has has antennae:
I had 3 birthdays that year: one at home (see above), one at my grandpa and grandma Nodland's (I got a new suit... awesome):
... and one at my grandpa and grandma Brackin's:
My first day of 1st grade, 1984. I look a little worried:
School Halloween party 1984:
My 8th birthday in November, 1985:
