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Stephanie, those pics are awesome (slowly working through on dialup.) Adorable cute AND you are making me homesick.

Also? I love that in one of her "oh god, WET" pictures, there is the 4th of July "Ooooooh!" one in the background.

That 4th of July one is my mom's favorite. She has made many copies.

It's a really charming picture. You manage to capture a lot of her expression.

It's funny, when I see you and her, I see you in her so clearly. And when it is Joe? Him. She's lucky.

I'll tell him that. He thinks she only looks like me.

And ahhhh!

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My parents have many, many, many pictures of me curled up with (and sometimes, curled up upon by) their cats, burmese Kitten and black Beau. I was probably just a nice warm body to them, but as soon as I was mobile, I chased them down just to rub on them. There's one kinda crazy picture of me at about a year) where I look like a total hedonist, dragging myself along Kitten. He just looks happy, but a little bewildered (and I was holding my nose. Cause, see, Kitten latched onto noses when he was happy.)

He thinks she only looks like me.

Newp. It's around the eyes and mouth, I think*.

* think, because I'm bad at determining WHAT it is about people that makes them resemble each other.

My SIL can't see herself in Dominic. Neither can my brother. However, us relatives? Marvel at how insane it is the child manages to eerily resemble both of their baby pictures. To the point where some could be interchanged. (And the funny thing is, my brother and his wife resemble each other more than they do their siblings. And yet they see the sibling resemblance more than to that of their child.)

I see it all the time in other people and their kids, but it's very hard for me to see me in her or similarities between my mom and I.

I'll tell him what you said. I think Joe has been feeling a bit like he doesn't know how to be a dad. Ellie cries a lot when he holds her - not from stranger anxiety, but because he's just not very used to babies and he's mainly home at the end of the day when she's tired. Anyway, last night, he told me "She doesn't even look like me."

Oh, but she does. Tell him a total stranger thinks so. My brother goes through something a little similar after PJ takes Dominic to her parents for a couple of weeks so she can earn some money doing construction work (and when he was gone at school all day in the early months.)

Now that D is older, it has lessened somewhat. Probably because D is actually remembering the transitions and can articulate that he wants DAD not MeeMaw or Pawpop or Mom.

Not a parent, but maybe make sure on his time off that he spends a lot of time doing the primary stuff. It helped my brother when PJ stepped back on those early days of being gone. And he said so, with all the proper psych terms;)

I think most babies prefer Mommy. It changes soon enough and Dad becomes the run to person.

Such precious pictures!