Blogger is being difficult tonight. Photos won't go where I want but I'll figure it out and hopefully the sequence will make sense when I'm done.
I hope to print you all a copy of "Nana's Views" before long so I'm trying
to incorporate some of the old photos and family history so as not to lose it.
This photo, below, was taken at the "new" Peru, Iowa house.
I was born there, the 8th of 9 children.
I don't know where the other four children are.
Guess they must have been in school.
My Granny, Katherine Lydia Byrd Coe,
had a camera so maybe she stopped over one school day.
My Dad and Mom, Linda and Gary.
Alan and Nancy, baby.
Virginia and Nancy.
I'm pretty sure this would have been my "baby picture".
The first picture.
Taken at Peru, the new house.
Don't know why Virginia got the privlege
of holding the baby . . . but it is kind of a special photo.
I loved that bookcase, beside the "big chair".
I remember it at the Junkyard house.
Don't know where it went from there.
Wish I had it now.
This is me, Nancy,
about 1 year old
in the Peru house.
Yes. I am. I sure am sitting on the potty chair.
And pretty pleased with myself, too!
I must have known I was a "big girl" lol
They didn't leave babies in diapers back then, having to carry water and not having electricity for a washer and dryer. I'm not even sure there were dryers in 1950. Mom's dryer would have been the clothes line!
2 years.
Afton, at the new Junkyard House.
So new that the house wasn't really finished
in August when I turned 2 years and
Mary was brought home from the hospital
to this new house.
Three Years.
Mom and Dad's bedroom window is above me
and Mom has planted two roses already.
One rose is to the right of me in the photo
and the other, out of sight to the left.
And I am sure getting to be a Big Girl!
But I'm a little self conscious! : )
My Dad and I usually shared a birthday cake.
Gramps' birthday was the 17th of August,
mine the 15th so we usually shared a cake
and Linda and Mary shared a week later.
Mary's birthday was August 23 and
Linda's birthday was August 24.
oh yeah! Now I'm getting big!
Light them candles! I'm sure I can blow them out this time!
(me, wearing home made gingham dress with peter pan collar!)