Oughta be in pictures

So Aunt Mindy heard the plea on the last blog and posted some pictures of baby Corey Allbritton and baby Brad Allbritton. Grandma Pearl also heard it and she's made us some copies, so I guess I better get to work planning one of those walls in the stairwell that's covered with black and white pictures of our parents, our grandparents and our kids. And Cydney Wilson, duh.

Anyway, without further ado, and I've omitted the baby picture of him in the little gingham newsboy cap because, hello, the man has a rep to protect.

So, Brad is the dark haired dream that looks very much like Jake Allbritton. Aunt Mindy is the baby in the floor. Aunt Dody is the oldest girl and Uncle Jimmy is the oldest boy.

This delightful young boy is Grandpa Brad. He looks a little scrawny and precious, like Jake. And those are the chin, lips and eyes of Corey Allbritton and Jake Allbritton. That great head of compliant hair skipped two generations, though.

This is Corey's mom and dad and little baby Katrina. I can look at little else but Brad's biceps in this picture. Oh yeah, and the fact that almost that exact face with a shaved head is snoring in my bedroom right now

Pfffft. I do not even know where to go first. Katrina's blonde hair and dimples and red lips? Corey Daniel's obvious pride in his two front teeth? Or that beautiful sharp chin that was present as early as his toddler years? Or how lucky we all are that my precious grew into his forehead?

Stop it. Katrina's oldest son is her mirror image with shorter hair and boy clothes. I cannot believe Corey had silky hair as a little boy. And that little dreamboat in the back, Uncle Chris. I promise if you saw him now, you'd still want to pitty-pat his wittle face.

Like father, like son, no? I'm told this is Corey in the seventh grade and Brad in the sixth grade. Or vice versa.

Baby, I'm all over the mock turtleneck.

This is what Corey looked like in high school, at the age during which he demonstrated total dipshit boyfriend behavior and stomped my heart flat on the regular. But I, oh I could not resist those eyes and those lips (still can't - it's even engraved in his wedding band) and was always a-running back for more. This shirt was MY favorite shirt, as in, I owned it. I can't make any excuses for mid-90s fashion, people.

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