there was the copy of Matt's birth certificate with prints of his precious little feet...
there was the first pictures of Matt: the nurses cleaning him up, the first time I got to hold him, Tom rocking with him, the sweet expression on Andy's face when he first saw Matt...
there were the statistics of his birth: weight 7 lbs 9 ozs, height 19 3/4 inches, light brown hair, born at
1:44 pm...
there were pictures of his first Easter, his first 4th of July, his first Halloween, his first Thanksgiving, his first five Birthdays, his first five Christmases...
Wait! The picture for Matt's second Christmas (top left hand corner) didn't look quite right:
The picture was kind of blurry, but his hair seemed a little too dark and wavy... And I didn't think those were the curtains we had in the living room of the house on Jasper Way...And the tricycle is the one we got Andy not Matt....
Oh my gosh, the picture was of Andy's second Christmas not Matt's! Then, I realized that the picture I had in the spot for his third Christmas was actually his second Christmas... and yes the other Christmas pictures were also off.
Now, here are the issues I have with this little snafu:
1. How did I not notice all these things when I was putting the pictures in his book? And how did I miss the little date stamped in the corner that was read "1983", six years before Matt was born? And how did I overlook the writing on the back of the picture that read "Andy, Christmas 1983"?
2. How in the world have I looked at Matt's baby book at least once a year and never caught the mistakes? (Although really, I have been on some powerful drugs over the years for my depression!)
3. How could Matt, Andy, Tom, family and friends have missed it all these years?
I guess the good news is that it was easy to remove the picture of Andy, move the other pictures into their correct places, and because I organized all my pictures last year...it was easy to find a picture of Matt on his fifth Christmas and to correct my mistake!
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