Comments on: My First Birthday

by: Barb/Mom

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:26:57 +0000

Hey - I had nice hand writing, you just can’t read very well!!! And, as you mention in your caption, you got “plastic BLOCKS” from Aunt Bev and Uncle Ed!

by: Brad

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:27:21 +0000

Bev is totally right on this one. In fact, the Super 8 footage shows me opening the plastic blocks which clearly say on the package that they are from Aunt Bev and Uncle Ed.

This is all Mom’s fault as her handwriting was utterly sub-par at this time.

by: Dave Chasteen

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:27:09 +0000

Now, I know why Paul Simon wrote a song about Kodachrome. The colors are fantastic. I had no idea they developed it back in the 1930’s.

by: Bev

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:54:30 +0000

I think you couldn’t read your mom’s bubble lettering. I believe it said plastic blocks and a blue t-shirt. I’m sure I didn’t get you a plastic black and blue t-shirt. My pattern for kids gifts has always been something fun for the kid and something, like clothes, to be practical that the mom would appreciate for the kid.

And I didn’t realize that Ed’s reclining and resting or taking naps at family gatherings started, or rather, always has been a trait of his, since the beginning of our marriage.

by: Dad

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:22:38 +0000

I normally used Kodachrome, on which the colors are very stable, even from when it was first introduced in the 30’s. The early Ektachrome, which was produced for ease of processing, usually takes a magenta cast over time.