This week’s theme seems to be about the sappy. I posted about Nathan turning four. I then posted about Graham and his sweetheart Sarah, and how they are growing far too quickly. I thought that the only fair way to treat my children (I am ALWAYS trying to be fair. Futile, likely, but I’m trying) would be to do a post about Miss Emily.
While laying awake in the middle of the night as I am prone to do, I drafted a Post Of Epic Proportions in my head. It involved discussion of how much she looks like me, of how she has my nose and smile, of how I feel like I am watching myself thirty years ago. I would ponder as to whether she is as kooky as I was (according to my mom) and if we possibly had similar personalities.
I would likely weep while writing it, and my readers might get a little misty from all of the heart tugging.
I went downstairs to pull out the two tiny albums I have that chronicle the first five years of my life. Another album caught my eye and I soon realized that I had a third album with photos that were beyond awesome. While the kids watched TV performed complex mathematical equations, I scanned some photos.
Let me introduce you to me, thirty years ago.
Hmmm…that smile looks awfully familiar.
Here I am being classy:
The legal age for drinking is lower in Canada than it is in the States, but it is not that low. Don’t even ask about the cigarette. I sure haven’t.
Working the bikini like Miss Emily does.
Also rocking the tree-stump thighs like she does.
Dear Emily: I am sorry that you got my thighs. Love, Mommy.
Feeling blinded by the Mommarazzi, I am guessing.
I have seen this expression before…
I’d be throwing “The Look” if I had a zoom lens in my face too.
Let’s get back to me in the seventies.
WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH THAT DRESS?
Speaking of dresses, what about this one?
The photo is blurry, but you get the idea. I feel like I should yodel while looking at that photo.
There is an outfit that appears in approximately eighty percent of my photos.
One more for good measure.
Dear Polyester: The Seventies would not have been the same without you.
There are pages and pages of photos that I forgot even existed. While browsing through them I can see a definite resemblance to my baby girl. I also think that she and I might possibly share a similarly unique and kooky personality.
Can you see it too?
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She’s you with just a tad bit less hair that’s blonde (umm…and maybe better sense than to let her mother dress her in polyester, ha)! Will she get your curls, too, in time, you think?
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Comment by Camels & Chocolate on August 27th, 2008 @ 9:21 pmWe just had frizzy hair until the hormones kicked in, but now have more curl than we know what to do with…
Sweet post! Emily definately looks like you! In fact, when you show pics from when you were younger, I see all three of your kids! (Funny because I thought they looked like their Daddy!) Hope you were a good little girl, cause you might just get a taste of your own medicine!
Comment by Michele on August 27th, 2008 @ 10:00 pmShe looks like you for sure!
Isn’t it a odd feeling when you look at your child and it feels like you are looking at yourself, that happens to me once in a while with Marin.
I think that in the first few pictures I see a LOT of Graham (not that you were masculine, or he feminine) But I saw it a lot (based entirely on pictures since I have never seen either in person!)…
But the last few I see some resemblance of Emily for sure!
Must be amazing having little beings with little pieces of you!!!
yep- I see Graham too- especially with that big cute smile.
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Comment by kelly on August 27th, 2008 @ 10:31 pmtotally see a resemblence! your outfits ROCKED! imagine how icky the polyester felt?!?
and p.s. i can’t believe you didn’t have curly hair all your life!
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Comment by joyce on August 28th, 2008 @ 4:39 amNow that you have shown us your baby pics I can see the likeness, altho she has her daddy’s eyes based on the photo of him you showed a bit back.
So glad that I just missed that part of the 70s clothing. Either that or my parents were too cheap to let me be cool.
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Comment by Heather on August 28th, 2008 @ 4:46 amI totally see Graham too although there is definitely a resemblence with Emily as well.
I have a niece who looks strikingly like me. I guess that makes perfect sense since everyone says I look just like my brother.
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Comment by K on August 28th, 2008 @ 4:54 amI always thought that she looked more like Matthew, but now that I see your baby pictures, I get it.
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Comment by witchypoo on August 28th, 2008 @ 5:04 amHey … I must agree with a few other commenters (sp?) ~ I definitely see Emily … but a lot of Graham too! Nathan, on the other hand, looks like his Daddy!
I THINK we’re about the same age ~ so I could definitely show you a few outfits of mine that you would be jealous of! 
I see a resemblance, for sure! But I also see so much of you in Graham too… moreso in the big toothy grin shots And the first picture of Emily, something about her eyes or her cheeks looks like Nathan. I haven’t noticed that before.
Those pictures are outstanding! Your “attitude” in the bikini shot? “Yeah, I’m doing yard work while wearing a two-piece. SO WHAT?”
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Comment by LVGurl on August 28th, 2008 @ 5:38 amI always think your kids look like Matthew … until I see pictures of you. Graham & Emily definitely take after their momma.
Comment by Jen on August 28th, 2008 @ 6:09 amOh my, she does have your smile!!
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Comment by Maria on August 28th, 2008 @ 6:20 amOk, she has your hubby’s face (and hair?) from the eyes on up, but she all you in the nose, cheeks, mouth and chin. What an adorable combination! You are so awesome at capturing her personality in your photos. Love them!
I’m your age and I have photos of me in little Swedish/German-inspired frocks as well. What a strange fad that was. I did not, though, have the full leisure suit ensemble. I’m thinking your mom was much hipper…
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Comment by Heartfull on August 28th, 2008 @ 6:22 amNo wonder your kids are so freakin cute! Look at you missy;) I think Graham looks a lot like you too!
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Comment by Randi on August 28th, 2008 @ 6:41 amOk. Just to make sure you look a lot alike I am gonna need a picture of Emily with a beer bottle and a smoke. K?
Oh just kidding. I always thought she looked like your husband after I saw a pic of him but yeah, she’s got your features too! Gotta love what our parents dressed us in. Surely our kids won’t be as scarred…
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Comment by Elaine on August 28th, 2008 @ 6:54 amthe blue suit, red shirt? Man, you look like mr. roper (from three’s company” in them, hehe…) that’s a good thing! Really, honestly!
Definitely see the family resemblence!
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Comment by anji on August 28th, 2008 @ 7:13 amI think I’ve said it before but she TOTALLY looks like you. And I can see Graham in your old pictures too. Such cute kids!
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Comment by sizzle on August 28th, 2008 @ 7:24 amShe is her Momma’s girl, full of sweetness and sass that can’t help but be loved!
And that suit? My cousin had a similiar one that she wore in about 90% of her pictures. It must have been ’70’s haute couture…
And my hair never had curl until puberty either… I thought I was the only one 
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I love those old pictures! So 70’s. so… yuk, I lived it too.
Yes I see a resemblance between you and Emily, but I think I see more resemblance between the way you look now than your 5 yr old self. Odd how that is. You’re both so cute!
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Comment by monstergirlee on August 28th, 2008 @ 8:30 amVery cute!
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Comment by Elizabeth on August 28th, 2008 @ 9:26 amShe is definitely a mini you! By the way, in the pic of you with the “yodel” dress, we had the same couch!! Gotta love the seventies!!
Comment by Kelle on August 28th, 2008 @ 10:35 amHmmm, curly hair that only appeared after puberty? Must have been the body’s way of making sure the curtains matched the drapes. AUGH! Can’t believe I just wrote that!!!
But yes, I see so much of Emily in you.
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Um, yep! She’s totally your baby 
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I had to come read the comments to see if I was crazy or if others saw the same thing as me …
GRAHAM! (and little Miss Emily too
Um, YUP!! There’s definitely some resemblance!
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Comment by Mrs. Wilson on August 28th, 2008 @ 4:20 pmI see Graham more than anything!
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Comment by Jennie on August 28th, 2008 @ 6:17 pmWhen we had Graham, all I heard was how much he looked like his Daddy.
I saw it, yes, but I also saw ME.
I got tired of explaining that he looked like my baby photos. Nobody cared.
Then we had Nathan, and there was no argument. HE IS HIS DADDY.
Emily is a good mix of us, but according to my Mom, she has my personality too.
I am not sure if I should be happy about this, or afraid.
Aww - you should be happy! Emily will be so glad to be just like you someday, I’m quite sure.
I had those “thunder thighs” when I was a baby also. Eliza is following right in my footsteps… At least I got one out of the three. I was thinking that I got royally jipped in the whole homebirth times three affair
-Andrea
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Comment by Andrea on August 29th, 2008 @ 7:39 amDUDE you were doing polyester pantsuits before Hilary Clinton! That shirt is the shizzit though.
My girl also got my thighs and my smile. With smiles like that I can only hope that people look up instead of down.
Comment by Nadine/Scarbiedoll on August 29th, 2008 @ 11:45 amI can’t get over how “twinsy” you look! But if I hadn’t seen your baby photos, I don’t know if I would have picked it out right away. It’s crazy!
Comment by The Over-Thinker on August 29th, 2008 @ 5:06 pmWow … she totally looks like you when you were little (minus the hair). Love the outfits … hot stuff!
Comment by Red Lotus Mama on August 30th, 2008 @ 9:27 pmHey dutchblitz, long time no seek and I’m an occassional reader of your blog. Not only your pics of the current day are nice, so is yesterday. I bet those childhood photos bring back good memories…and the funniest is you have a brown bottle. Nowadays, all those angry anti-obesity activists don’t like the coke and 7up baby bottles. :-/ As a person of Flemish-French descent (I’m the man who said his father is from French Flanders or the Nord/Pas-de-Calais region), I knew about how toddlers are introduced to wine and spirits in a young age, my Dad explained this to me on his parents gave him a tiny fraction of liquor into water or juice. Maybe that’s his family, but I doubt any parent would expose their kids to alcohol in an early age. I’m an American from the left coast (southern Cal.) with all the P-C ness and neo-cons alike telling 18 year olds they can go overseas to fight in wars, but can’t enter a bar. Sorry for the off topic message, but I’m glad you share pics of yourself, husband, the family (can’t believe the kids are growing up fast) and your home. I hope your summer was fantastic in where else…Canada. +
Comment by Michael on August 31st, 2008 @ 4:31 amHey there, Wow the beer bottle picks must be a family thing, lol. I know I have seen baby me with one too. As for the wonderful leasure suit, I hate to break the news to you but one of the only pics I have of us as tots your in that suit too, lol.
Comment by cousin Teresa from Ontario on August 31st, 2008 @ 8:27 pmI must say, as a new member your blog caught my attention first. I have a mini-me also. And now she is almost 20, and I was 22 when I had her; full-circle almost. Not only have I gotten a taste of my own medicine by watching what my own mother went through; but also a new a wonderful outlook on life. To live is to learn, and to learn is to change. M daughter changed me by learning through her life. Feel blessed, because you are. And I am sure your mother had you in that dress for a reason!:0)
Comment by Rhonda on September 1st, 2008 @ 8:59 amOh my, she looks just like you! Those identical smiles and looks are SO cute!
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Comment by Kristabella on September 3rd, 2008 @ 1:55 pm
I can defnitely see the resemblence - not only in physical looks, but facial expressions & poses (which indicates that her personality probably IS similar to yours as a child). Lucky you, having a Mini Me!
P.S. There are worse thighs Emily could have inherited. Like mine.
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