Personal Yarns

1. Where were you born? What do you know about your own birth? (time, circumstance, etc...)

I was born Jan 8, 1971 in Flint, MI sometime in the early morning. I was a twin and 2 months premature. Carrie died six weeks later of SIDS. My grandmother recently told me she thought it was me at first, but I guess they matched up the foot prints and it wasn't me.

2. Do you have a baby picture you can put onto your weblog? If not, tell us what you looked like as a baby.

That would require digging deep into our storage room, something I'm not prepared to face.

I was just over 3 lbs when born. As a toddler, I had white blond curly hair. Sometime between the age 7 and 10 my eyes changed from blue/gray to green.

3. What kind of a baby or toddler were you according to the people who were around when you were young?

No idea. Somehow, my dad got custody of me (I'm sure it was unusual in the early 70s for the father to get custody). I think I was just over a year old then and I didn't meet my mom until I was 9 and I didn't live with my dad from age 6. When I was 10 I moved in with my mother. So, no idea really.

4. Know any cute baby-related quotes or anecdotes?

The people I lived with for awhile owned a restaurant in Cincinnati, Mecklenburg Gardens, closed for at least 15 years...oh wait. It reopened as Mecklenburgs in 1996. If you're interested, the history section says something about the 1974 to 1982 period when Scott (my legal guardian for 3 years, starting when I was seven and ending when I was ten) owned the restaurant. Anyways, my dad has always been friends with them and their baker told me that when I was 3 or 4 she was making chocolate batter of some sort and told me I could lick the bowl...a huge commercial mixing bowl, probably taller than me. I somehow managed to get the entire thing over my head and was licking the bowl from the inside. Still cracks me up.

Posted by tonya at May 30, 2002 10:16 AM