J & K

The other day my mother-in-law sent a stack of school photos of D and my sister-in-law when they were in school.  Sitting at the top of the stack was this photo.



I found myself staring at that photo...and I wasn't seeing my sister-in-law, I was seeing my four year-old.  Yes, yes, this is a photo of my sister-in-law at ten but I'm telling you, now that I've made the connection, I fully expect this is what my four year-old to look like when she's ten. I showed my husband and he immediately saw it too.  And in all fairness, he has said that before. One time he came home from work and she was wearing her hair in a way that I hadn't done it before.  He visibly reacted when he saw her. He said it was like a blast from his past and that he was seeing his big sister the way he remembered her from his childhood.

This morning I've been scrounging around through pictures of K to try to show you what I mean and I guess this is the best I can do. And actually K doesn't quite look like herself in this photo, but it was the only recent photo I could find where she's looking towards the camera and smiling with her mouth open. In real life I think she actually looks *more* like her auntie than this first photo shows. (Though I think the eyes are pretty similar in the photos.)  I'm betting that now that I've pointed it out, those of you who know these two girls will see it too.







(Hopefully Auntie J didn't mind me posting that adorable photo of her on my blog.  What's that they say? It's better to ask for forgiveness than permission.  ??)