It was my birthday last friday, and my parents sent me some fun artifacts from my infancy:
The summer after I was born, my parents took me to visit my great-grandmother Margery. She was in her nineties when this picture was taken; my mom is the one in the red sun-dress. I’m obviously the one looking really bored by the visit.
My mother notes below this photograph that I was ten or eleven pounds at this point (about the size of a large house cat). Since I was born about five weeks before my anticipated due date at about five pounds in size, this is double my birth weight. Since I had trouble nursing and keeping food down in the first few months, I bet my parents were pleased I’d started to grow at a healthy pace!
Maybe it's just the calligraphy, but I feel like your dad might have based his map on one of Tolkien's. 😀
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