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Two months pre-Lillian. You were already making your presence felt!
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Two months pre-Lillian. You were already making your presence felt!

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  • Two months pre-Lillian. You were already making your presence felt!
  • You were a little apricot! You always slept like that, with your rump up. This was pre-"baby must sleep on her back" days, of course. At that time, sleeping on the tummy was thought to be best.
  • You and cousin Uche, who was born exactly one month after you, on December 8th. On the day he was born, he was bigger than you were that same day! You were together often as babies.
  • Here we are on a visit to Michigan. Get a load of that crappy stroller! But that's what they had then. If they'd had them then, we'd have tried to get one of those fancy three-wheelers, shock absorbers and all.
  • Gosh, if you are 5 months old or so, then Verda must be about 55, which is to say, younger than I am now!! Yikes.
  • Here we are on the porch of our apartment in San Jose, with the little English children from next door. Older children liked to play with you -- you were such a cheerful little gal. Their mom was horrified that we liked to watch that lowbrow Benny Hill.
  • Here you are almost 2 and we are visiting Jack and Verda in Columbia, Maryland. You always LOVED to swing, and I mean swing really, really high.
  • Jack reading you a story, in our apartment in Conner House at MIT. He had that mustache for most of your childhood.
  • Here we have moved to Cambridge and are having a visit from Stu, Bill and Lily, and Judy is with us too. We're in front of the Harvard Stadium I believe. We always got you those kind of buckle shoes. You would wear through the two layers of leather on the toes in two months or less, propelling your beloved pink shoe around campus!
  • You're about 18 months old and pretty fearless when it came to swimming. Duncan took you almost every day.
  • Here you are in the dorm at MIT with Jeannie Beinart and Jody Peltason. Jeannie was the daughter of Julian and Doreen Beinart, the headmasters. She was 6 or 7 then, and she loved to come play with you. We sometimes babysat for Jeannie and her older brother Peter, who was 12 at the time. Peter grew up to be the editor of The New Republic and a well-known political commentator.
  • In your room at MIT, playing with your beloved Legos. You were really absorbed by them, and they were a good toy for quite a few years.
  • Camping in New Hampshire. Rest assured that we did not normally tie a babushka on you!
  • Christmas, 1981, in Cambridge. We liked that time of year, since the campus was so quiet. Just us and the mice!
  • Graduation party on our floor. You always participated. Overalls were your most common form of dress in those days.
  • And that fall, we moved to Wilton. For your first Halloween there, I sewed you a witch costume.
  • What makes a memory? I began to ponder this question when I realized that Juno had disemboweled our oldest ornament, made by Lillian and me when she was 13 months old. Of course I'll mend it. But just looking at the object doesn't tell you how we made it. I prepared a green tree and cut out felt shapes. Lillian loved to paste things, with some help with paste applications. Collage was one of our favorite activities!
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