sherriknits

I had a heck of a time getting pictures off the old floppy disks to my old laptop (I really used to think that thing was so cool and I thought the old Sony Mavica was, too.)  I managed to get a few pictures before the old laptop crashed.  I can see this may be a lifetime job of getting our old pictures recovered, maybe I’ll teach Tyler to do it.  lol

Anyway….let’s go back (no comments, please, on the picture quality, this camera was really happening in those days!)

For his birthday one year, we bought him a real drum set, his size!  He entertained us with that for years until he started dismantling it on his own and moving it from room to room or using it for his cars or whatever..

This picture was evidently taken at Christmas the same year.

I had the dates when I was on the old laptop but they didn’t come along for the ride when I got them onto a flash drive, onto my computer, into Picasa and then over to Flickr.  I think these were in 2001.

Then I think these were in March of 2000.  We went bike shopping with his therapist and then got some huge training wheels to make the bike like a 4 wheeler.  You can imagine his delight when we walked in the bike shop!

This wasn’t the one he ended up with but evidently he really liked this one!

I really like this one, guys!

We spent hours at the store….it is like walking back into time.  Next door was a “department store” that just went out of business last year.  You would never believe what could be found in there.  We walked over there after the bike shopping and in the women’s department, we found those old satin robes that were quilted and brought back visions of big curlers and those net things we’d put in our hair to cover them.  The robes were covered in plastic bags.  We were dying of laughter. You would never believe the ancient stock in there…the community was pretty sad when they went out of business.  I know a lot of young people who loved to go there for vintage clothes.  The businesses were owned by two brothers.

Moving along…I also found some vacation pictures.

I can’t remember where this is but I thought it was cute.

Must have been something really interesting down there.

This vacation was around the time he was wandering away.  Every single day before we did anything, we’d take his picture so we would remember exactly what he was wearing.  It’s funny now, but it wasn’t funny at all then.  One of the mornings, he did escape and our family was frantically covering the RV park.  The park owner and I headed directly for the water and we saw this little fellow sitting at water’s edge, throwing rocks in.  I was about to fall apart, but really…he’d never get in water without a LOT of coaxing.  That period of time was incredibly stressful for us all and we had no idea how he managed to get out but let me tell you, it didn’t happen again.  It’s a wonder we all didn’t end up on meds during that time.  lol

I’ll try to find a few more pictures before this is all over.  I also know that the big brother is going to do a guest post, too, so stay tuned.

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