11.21.2011

{party} vintage innkeeper memories

six-year-old me with my birthday cake...


six-year-old me after my little sister used a toddler ninja move on my birthday cake...


isn't my mother's hair fantastic?

she wrote the following on the back of the first photo...

#6
november 20, 1980
mommy + daddy gave me "merlin" for my birthday

"merlin" looked like this...


this commercial was the reason i wanted the toy (six electronic games in one?! wow!)...



just a glimpse of little me from over thirty years ago.

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2 comments:

aayer said...

Omg! I loved the Merlin!

pigwidget said...

You are one year younger than me, it seems... You look adorable in your photos, and now very much like your mom back then :) Good to see your spirit was not diminished with the calamity done to your cake: bet you are smiling 'cause it still tasted *so* good :D