in lieu of telling you about my doctor's appointment
this is my mom's aunt helen. she's one of the people i was named after. mom always thought of her as beautiful and glamorous.
this is me at five days old with my dad's mom, my other (more direct) namesake. i got her first and middle name. the other name my parents were considering was kathleen (or was it katherine?) belinda. my mom says when i was born, they looked at me and said "she's a helen marie." helen marie the first was living with us when i was born, and died before my first birthday, but my parents like to tell me about how she loved to carry me around and take care of me.
me again, surrounded by my six-year-old brother's expectations of me.
in this next one, i'm starting to assert my own personality. that's me in the middle, in case you can't see the resemblence. i'm in second grade and holding my first real book, about our vacation to disney world.
and after all that, this is how i turned out:)
