Baby me. Baby and me.

So I dug out an old baby photo of myself. I must have been maybe 8 months old. It was really interesting looking at it in the light of my new baby-aware eyes.

First off, my ears have not changed one single bit. My nose is unrecognisable for the original, but my ears are so similar that even I can tell, and I don't get much chance to look at my ears.

Next, my hairline is the same. At the age in the photo, my hair was just starting to grow, so it was rather thin. Later in life it got much thicker and grew out. But, since my 30s it started retracting and is now thinner. My hairline has moved back, my widows-peaks pronounced, and bit of thinning in the back. Which is rather similar to how it looked in this photo. Weird.

The lines around my eyes and on my forehead have always been there. No change. Well... maybe a line or two, but not much.p

I spent a long while starting at the photo and comparing it to the wee one's 21 week ultrasound photo. The curves of the head and face are the same. The nose looks pretty similar too. I'd originally though the turned-up nose was wife-ish, but now that I look at my old turned-up button proboscis, perhaps it is like mine (tho, I'm not sure I'd wish the beak it became on her). It's really hard to tell, for obvious reasons. I wish I had a profile shot of the wife as a baby, but they're all head-on, so I can't tell which of us this sonogram more resembles.